Broken package EOL instructions (Was Re: Retire gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux in F14/devel?)

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Fri Aug 6 11:18:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 18:13 +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
> 2010/8/6 Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 17:23 +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
> >> sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux
> >>
> >> Package gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-8.fc13.x86_64 is
> >> obsoleted by gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-1.fc13.x86_64 which is
> >> already installed
> >
> > In http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife :
> >> git rm all the other files in the foo branches that you added
> >> dead.package to.
> >
> > Except that:
> > $ fedpkg commit -p -m "EOL package"
> > Could not commit: No spec file found.
> Using git instead of fedpkg?
> git rm *.spec
> git commit
> git push

I just left the spec file there for now. This is a bug in fedpkg.



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