On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 20:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 6/3/19 7:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Some people don't see any problem with this, personally it drives me
> > crazy and I wish it were policy that *every* retired package must be
> > obsoleted. But it isn't.
> I am quite shocked to hear this from you. I wouldn't have expected this
> attitude from you.
>
> You seem have forgotten about the problems, such obsoletes cause, e.g.
> when packages are being reintroduced or move to 3rd party repos or when
> 3rd party packages depend upon them.
Version the obsoletes correctly and this doesn't need to be a problem
at all.
Write code correctly and we wouldn't need to ever do updates either :) That never seems to happen so how do you deal with it when it doesn't.. tell the user they should have had better backups?
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