Hi all,
I was wondering if there is a proper way to remove a subpackage? I can just stop building it in the spec, but are there other things that should be done to remove it from the repositories?
More specific example: I maintain the packaging for a library which has Perl bindings. The Perl bindings are no longer being maintained upstream as there do not appear to be any users. Thus, I would like to remove the Perl bindings subpackage.
Thanks, Scott
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 21:07:21 -0400, Scott Talbert swt@techie.net wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is a proper way to remove a subpackage? I can just stop building it in the spec, but are there other things that should be done to remove it from the repositories?
You'll probably want to have one of the remaining sub-packages obsolete it.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 21:07:21 -0400, Scott Talbert swt@techie.net wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is a proper way to remove a subpackage? I can just stop building it in the spec, but are there other things that should be done to remove it from the repositories?
You'll probably want to have one of the remaining sub-packages obsolete it.
Obsolte *specifically older versions* of the subpackage, to avoid mssive confusion if the upstream vendors ever restore it and you need to restore the subpackage. There have been fascinating problems with subversion, samba, and various perl modules over the years as paritular dependencies and supported packages change. It's exacerbated when the components are moved into, or out of, a core software bundle: The perl core package has occassionally been quite awful about that.
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