On 30/01/2021 09:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
The following distributions will no longer be available after the perl-5.32 release as they have been deprecated upstream: perl-Gnome2 Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-Canvas Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-GConf Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-Rsvg Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-VFS Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-Vte Achim Gratz perl-Gnome2-Wnck Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2 Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-GladeXML Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-Notify Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-SourceView2 Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-Spell Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-Unique Achim Gratz perl-Gtk2-WebKit Achim Gratz There are no external dependencies to these, so please just mark them as OBSOLETE.
I've vaulted all versions of these packages. Sorry for taking so long to get around to this.
At the moment, 'OBSOLETE' in cygwin-pkg-maint has a very specific meaning: the line is simply ignored by calm.
If you just mark a package as OBSOLETE without any other action, calm's going to warn about an unexpected package in the relarea.
That works in the case when a package has been replaced by something else, and the historically necessary rearrangement to make the obsoleted package a sub-package of the package which replaces it has happened. (we didn't just remove the obsolete package because historically the obsoletion was recorded in the obsoleted package's metadata).
(There's a whole other set of considerations for packages with the category '_obsolete', but again I think those are historical artefacts)
I'm not sure what the word is for the status of these packages (but they are all deprecated upstream, don't have a direct replacement, probably aren't of any use to anybody, so clearly keeping them around any longer is pointless...)
