Heads-up: Obsolete but still included packages

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Aug 19 19:25:36 UTC 2013


On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:22:49 +0200
Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:55:26PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On 19 Aug 2013 19:51, "Till Maas" <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> 
> > > How did you create the list? At least this one seems to be a false
> > > positive, because it is not retired:
> > 
> > Isn't that what he says in the first sentence... Orphaned but not
> > properly retired?
> > 
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/latexdiff
> 
> Let me rephrase: It is not orphaned/retired/deprecated in pkgdb and
> there is no dead.package in GIT and it is not blocked in koji.

Right, and yet it's obsoleted by texlive-latexdiff, so no one could
ever install it or use it. 

So, all the above steps should be done on it, or if there's some actual
reason it's useful, texlive-latexdiff would have to be modified to not
obsolete it so anyone could actually install or use it. 

kevin
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