Hi, We need some form of retiring unused/dead/obsoleted packages to avoid mistakes, duplicates or just to tell everyone "this is not the package you are looking for". As an example lets take libcrypto++ package which is an outdated, misnamed duplicate of cryptopp, I started updating it recently only to realize it was a waste of time because cryptopp package was already up to date.
My proposal is to do what Fedora does in its repo, for a retired package: 1) git delete all files in package, spec, patches, etc. 2) create "dead.package" file with explanation why it was retired (for example "Obsoleted by XXX" or "Renamed to YYY") 3) make package read-only to avoid grave digging Please comment what you think about it. -- Jan Rękorajski | PLD/Linux SysAdm | http://www.pld-linux.org/ baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl baggins<at>pld-linux.org _______________________________________________ pld-devel-pl mailing list pld-devel-pl@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-pl