A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Tue Oct 18 16:15:37 UTC 2005


Rex Dieter wrote:

>> When a mantainer releases a new version (and new rpms appear for 
>> download), the old rpms often are not deleted.
>
>                           ^^^^^
> Actually, it's never, unless the maintainer specifically requests 
> package removals.
>
...and it leads to gradual accumulation of old packages, because the 
maintainer just is lazy or has no enough time to carry out such a request.




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