On Feb 27, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
you touch on a larger issue about how a package vendor can
effectively
'expire' any package to make sure users are aware its no longer being
maintained by the original vendor.
fedora-release could Obsolete: package <= V-R as of the time of the
new release or something like that. It's not perfect, since if
there's an update for the package after the initial release, one would
have to spin a new fedora-release package to cover that. Yeah, right
:-)
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