<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed, but many problems also here: users privacy/opt-in, easily spoofed, infrastructure. <br><br>In any case it would be great to have some estimate on this.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Michael Schwendt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mschwendt@gmail.com" target="_blank">mschwendt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:08:49 -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I maintain the uwsgi package for fedora, which optionally builds a bunch<br>
> of modules to integrate with several other languages. One of the plugins<br>
> got recently removed upstream but it hasn't got any replacements yet (see<br>
> the top of <a href="http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Erlang.html" target="_blank">http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Erlang.html</a>)<br>
><br>
> Currently f19 and f20 have 1.9.19 available, and I would like to update<br>
> to 1.9.21 but that would mean I have to deprecate the existing package<br>
> uwsgi-plugin-erlang. Is this the correct approach? adding an obsoletes<br>
> tag in the spec for uwsgi-plugin-erlang < 1.9.20 ?<br>
<br>
That would be the only way to withdraw the package from users'<br>
installations, especially if not obsoleting it would result in broken<br>
dependencies.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages</a><br>
<br>
Depending on how popular the package might be, such breakage could<br>
annoy users.<br>
<br>
> Tangential question, do we have statistics of how many times this (or<br>
> any other) package has been downloaded?<br>
<br>
Hardly feasible, given that every mirror server would need to count<br>
downloads and submit the results to the Fedora Project, and then one could<br>
still not conclude safely whether a package has been installed actually<br>
and is still in use (or has been downloaded/mirrored only).<br>
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