On 1 August 2012 16:29, Olivier Thauvin <nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org> wrote: >> >> Within mageia, libreoffice packages are supposed to replace old >> >> openoffice packages, so obsoletes are needed. >> > >> > Unless they are effective file conflict, and libreoffice can't be installed >> > simultaneously, I see no actual reason to force its removal. >> >> They do conflicts. >> We do not maintain it anymore. >> We do no want to have bugs reports about package Y on mgaX about >> packages "that were obviously build by mga" (yes but for mgaX-10). > > Yes but: > - it's up to packagers to point the package is not supported anymore (as > it is not on mirrors) > - the obsolete should be in the package that replace the previous one > (the word 'replace' is important)
Agreed. > - it is really a bad practice to choose for users what is good or not. Well, in the libreoffice case, this was well documented (and anyway, OO wasn't even supported upstream for ~ 2 years) For the db case, it's about a older version of a low level library that never went into a released version. The end user doesn't care whether it's apps are builded against libdb-5.2, or 5.3 (even more since 5.2 was only available in cauldron)