There are some obsoleted packages still in F15

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon May 16 20:14:06 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:00 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said: 
> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > > I noticed that gnome-applets is obsoleted by gnome-panel, but is still in
> > > the F15 repo. It probably shouldn't be. There are at least a few other
> > > gnome-applet related packages in the same boat, so it might be worth doing
> > > a search for all obsoleted packages that are still included in the repo.
> > 
> > Yes I noticed that as well, and I thought the FTBFS packages from F-12
> > and earlier were going to be blocked too.
> 
> We blocked orphans, not FTBFS.
> 
> With respect to the packages obsoleted by gnome-panel, until that package
> is in F-15 final, we can't really block them. (And at this stage of
> the release, that may not happen by GA.)

I believe some applets were already obsoleted prior to the gnome-panel
update that we're currently not planning to take into final.
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