handling eol/orphan of dup'd or unmaintained functionality (Bug 483185)

[Jerry Amundson]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>> How does/will a packaging system handle this?
>>
>> As long as "there is no noticeable difference to the user", Fedora
>> should bump NetworkManager-* with obsoletes of the knetworkmanger-*
>> packages.
>
> The plan is that kde-plasma-NetworkManager will obsolete knetworkmanager. We
> have it packaged and it will soon go to review, and from there to Rawhide.
> We hope to have it ready for F11. It should be hitting Rawhide well before
> the beta.

Ahh. Figures I would interpret "Our current best recommendation" as
meaning "our only and future..."

Thanks... I'll keep an eye out for the new package.

jerry