A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Oct 19 15:05:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:26:34 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 19:48 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 12:35 -0500, Rex Dieter a écrit :
> > > 
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC4Status
> > > includes a section labeled "Remove Request"
> > 
> > Are you sure of your interpretation ? I read it like more like a way to
> > manually kill all versions of a package (found legal or security
> > problems) than something you're supposed to do every release (it even
> > uses the "special request" wording)
> 
> Before today, it was kind of both.  AFAIK (thankfully) nobody ever used
> it for the latter though.

Which just happened.  :-(

Everyone, please _don't_ enter ordinary remove requests for old
packages there. Thank you!
 
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