Heads-up: Obsolete but still included packages

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:25:36PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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. 

Yes, I agree. But it is hard do deduct this from the original mail. :-)

Regards
Till