A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Oct 18 18:26:34 UTC 2005


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.

> If it was supposed to be done every release, it would have been
> automated.

Based on Seth's post, stuff will be automated today.




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