Does the idea include removing srpm also?
在 2011-11-30 上午2:07,"nicolas vigier" <[email protected]>写道:

> Hello,
>
> When a package is no longer supported, without being replaced by an
> other package, and needs to be removed from the distribution, the
> current procedure is :
>  - move the package on svn to obsolete directory
>  - ask a sysadmin to manually remove the package from repositories
>
> Instead of asking a sysadmin to do it, I propose that we create a
> package task-obsolete, with obsoletes on all packages that need to be
> removed, so that the removing of the package will be done by youri.
> I think it would be better :
>  - anybody with commit access can do it without asking a sysadmin
>  - we can have a list and logs of packages dropped since previous Mageia
>   release, which can be useful when writting release notes
>  - users who don't want to keep unsupported packages installed on their
>   system can install the package to remove them
>
> What do you think ?
>
>

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