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Re: Obsoletion procedures?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:24:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: Obsoletion procedures?
- References: <448C2E2A.9080600@ukf.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Three of my library packages are going to be becoming obsolete in the
>medium-term future.
>
>libapr0 and libaprutil0 and their development packages apr and apr-util
>are already used only by [prev] software.
>
>libneon24 is used solely by [curr] cadaver, and [prev] subversion.
>
>I'm soliciting opinions on how long library packages should remain after
>they no longer are required by any other software in the distro.
I don't think any opinions are required. We have a procedure for this.
The package move into the _obsolete category/_obsolete directory, and the
latest package becomes an empty .tar.bz2 file.
I don't see any reason to remove packages from the _obsolete category
once they are put there.
cgf