A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 10/18/05, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
> When a mantainer releases a new version (and new rpms appear for
> download), the old rpms often are not deleted.
>
> Now there are 1761 packages (in development/SRPMS/*) and 691 of them
> (40%) are previous (normally obsolete) versions.
>
> Is it a normal situation?

Is this a problem?

Because of the "rolling" nature of the Extras tree.. i feel its
vital..that at least one older version of packages are in the tree for
a period of time after an update is pushed in case an updated package
has a showstopping problem.. so users can fallback to something while
any such problem is worked out and fixed.

-jef