orphaning gnome-volume-manager

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Nov 25 20:00:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrice Dumas (pertusus at free.fr) said: 
> > > To an extent. We block packages every release that serve no purpose
> > > any more.
> > 
> > You should not, they should be orphaned.
> 
> If a package's entire function has been subsumed by another package, there's
> no point in going through an orphan cycle.

There can be different packages providing the same functionality in
fedora. The criterion is the presence of a maintainer (and passing the 
review).

--
Pat




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