Orphaning system-auto-death

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/16/2010 03:18 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:34 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:59:19PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>> I think I'll change the f15 deadline to very-far-in-the-future, and then
> >>> when I invent some spare time, work on some of the other ideas for automatic
> >>> determination of the time. That's better than not having the package
> >>> completely zapped.
> >
> > I have released ownership
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/system-autodeath
> >
> >
> > go claim it and enjoy :)
> 
> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of 
> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to warn users?
> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become 
> superfluous.
> 

it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to
the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs.

-sv