On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:43, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about distribution upgrade : how should we deal with
unmaintained packages which don't work in the new distribution ? Let's say
we have included a program in Extras (or main) and the project stops for
some reason. At some point in the future, the program will stop working
(API change, glibc upgrade, ...). How should we deal with such a package
(except not including it in the first place of course ;) ) ?
We could tell Anaconda to remove it (well I don't know much about Anaconda,
but I suppose it is possible), but what about online upgrades using yum or
apt ?
Anaconda, up2date and yum never remove packages unless they are
explicitly obsoleted by something else, AFAIK. (well, anaconda has some
special remove-this-crap blacklist items like linuxconf :) Apt on the
other hand does remove packages for which dependencies can no longer be
satisfied (and occasionally gets itself and you into trouble just
because of that :)
- Panu -