Some Suggestions (Mirror Space, gaim, ethereal, etc)

[Warren Togami]

Hi,

I am mirroring fedoralegacy FC2 into fedora.us's old apt repository.  I 
noticed that legacy contains many old updates from FC2 that were long 
since superceded and erased in download.fedora.redhat.com.  Can Legacy 
implement an automatic obsolete update purging script in order to help 
save space on the mirrors?

download.fedora.redhat.com uses something like "purge if the update 
package is superceded by another update for 1 month".  Even 2 months 
would be fine.  This matters a lot more with the *many* updates of 
mozilla and openoffice.org happening in the past year.

May I also suggest creating a category of packages where it is generally 
OK to upgrade the version because:
1) There is no ABI to break because it is a leaf-node package, like 
ethereal.
2) Nobody expects ABI compat, like ethereal.
3) Or ABI/API is maintained, like gaim-1.x or spamassassin-3.x.  Plugins 
built against gaim-1.0 are supposed to continue work with any future 
gaim-1.x.

Fedora Legacy can save time and effort by simply following the newer 
Fedora Core releases on these packages when it is safe to upgrade 
versions.  No review necessary, but perhaps some testing and ACK votes 
to push.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com