Packages remaining after upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/10/2011 09:08 PM, Alex wrote:
> That was my exact concern. I realize if there are no package changes
> it doesn't need to be updated; I was just concerned that after the
> upgrade (including distro-sync), there were still such old packages. I
> would have expected at least a "build world" kind of thing when
> releasing the new version, just so all the versions are in sync.

That was what I proposed earlier but it seems that it is just needless
waste of resources for both developers and users.  Developers time spend
on building and fixing failed builds when there is no change and
unnecessary redownloads for live upgrades for users.

Rahul