There are some obsoleted packages still in F15

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 16 18:00:47 UTC 2011


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.)

Bill


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