Packages which need to be retired properly

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 18:09:13 UTC 2014


Once again there are some packages, which haven't been retired completely
yet. Check out this Wiki page for the steps that are necessary to get packages
retired properly:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life


"Dead" in below output means the packages are marked "dead.package" in
dist git, but are still found in the repo(s) because they have not been
blocked in koji yet. Blocking for released dists (F20 and older) will not
be possible anymore.

"Undead" means the packages are not even marked "dead.package".

The script that performs these checks does not examine pkgdb state, so it
could be that even in pkgdb the packages have not been retired yet either.
The script also doesn't know whether there are koji block requests in
releng for these packages already.

========================================================================

In Rawhide:

Dead and all builds obsoleted:
------------------------------
openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-1.4
    obsoleted by: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron
openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1
    obsoleted by: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy

Undead and all builds obsoleted:
--------------------------------
drupal7-features_plumber
    obsoleted by: drupal7-features
mediawiki-SpecialInterwiki
    obsoleted by: mediawiki
mingw-pthreads
    obsoleted by: mingw-winpthreads
php-channel-symfony2
    obsoleted by: php-symfony

Only obsolete subpackage(s):
----------------------------
lzma ['lzma'] 2 left
ruby-gnome2 ['ruby-gtksourceview2', 'ruby-gtksourceview2-devel'] 24 left
vdsm ['vdsm-python-cpopen'] 34 left

========================================================================

Again, packages listed in the last section (only some subpackages are
obsolete) are _okay_.

For Fedora 20, there are more packages, which may need to be retired
properly:

Dead and all builds obsoleted:
------------------------------
openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-1.4
    obsoleted by: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron
openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1
    obsoleted by: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy
python-trml2pdf
    obsoleted by: python-trml2pdf12
python-webob1.2
    obsoleted by: python-webob
qt5-qtjsbackend
    obsoleted by: qt5-qtdeclarative
xfce4-icon-theme
    obsoleted by: rodent-icon-theme

Undead and all builds obsoleted:
--------------------------------
blueman
    obsoleted by: bluez
crtools
    obsoleted by: criu
drupal7-features_plumber
    obsoleted by: drupal7-features
libmatekeyring
    obsoleted by: mate-desktop
mate-keyring
    obsoleted by: mate-desktop
mingw-pthreads
    obsoleted by: mingw-winpthreads
php-channel-symfony2
    obsoleted by: php-symfony

Only obsolete subpackage(s):
----------------------------
lzma ['lzma'] 4 left
openscap ['openscap-content'] 15 left
ruby-gnome2 ['ruby-gtksourceview2', 'ruby-gtksourceview2-devel', 'ruby-gtksourceview2-devel'] 36 left
vdsm ['vdsm-python-cpopen'] 34 left
yum-utils ['yum-plugin-security'] 27 left


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