There are some obsoleted packages still in F15

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 16 18:22:23 UTC 2011


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> 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.)

Furthermore, not all of the applet packages are orphaned - if they are
ported to the new libpanel_applet ABI, they can certainly come back. (The
obsoletes are versioned.)

Bill


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