package dropped from core wiki page not updated

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:54:30 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Seems to me that the page 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackagesFC4
> 
> doesn't have all the packages listed on 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-PackageChanges
> (minus the one imported, like w3c-libwww). I am not convinced that
> the page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackagesFC4
> is really usefull anyway as the packages should be taken based on the
> interest of packagers, the fact that they come from core isn't that 
> important.
> 
> It could be usefull for those who want to keep up using a package
> and for smooth upgrades using yum, to let them know that the package
> is likely to be problematic. But then it should better be on release 
> notes and not there.

What exactly are your complaints? And what improvements do you suggest?

(That list of packages used to be included on the main OrphanedPackages
page where it gets really old and annoying and uninteresting with every
day FC-4 becomes older.)