Bug 3285

Summary:	if a package was renamed it appers twice on the maintdb list
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	Kamil Rytarowski <n54>
Component:	BuildSystem	Assignee:	Sysadmin Team <sysadmin-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Kamil Rytarowski 2011-11-07 21:16:42 CET

Description of problem:
if a package was renamed it appers twice on the maintdb list.
Examples:
Eterm obgr_seneca eterm anssi
eterm obsoletes Eterm

FileRunner nobody filerunner wally
filerunner obsoletes FileRunner

Steps to reproduce:
Check the list on http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt

Comment 1 Nicolas Vigier 2011-11-19 15:24:21 CET

Yes, we should have a script to compare list of packages in cauldron and maintdb, to remove old packages.

But as maintdb is also used for stable distributions, maybe we should wait until no supported distribution provide the obsoleted package ?

CC: (none) => boklm

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-22 13:36:52 CET

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yes, we should have a script to compare list of packages in cauldron and
> maintdb, to remove old packages.
> 
> But as maintdb is also used for stable distributions, maybe we should wait
> until no supported distribution provide the obsoleted package ?

Yes, please wait :)

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 3 Nicolas Vigier 2013-09-21 16:24:18 CEST

Actually it old one should not be removed automatically, as it can still be present in older releases.

Manual removal of packages from maintdb can be asked on sysadmin mailing list.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Nicolas Vigier 2014-05-08 18:07:28 CEST

CC: boklm => (none)