Re: [Cooker] Xfig and Transfig final.

[Olivier LAHAYE]

Le Wednesday 30 January 2008 16:23:10 Lev Givon, vous avez écrit :
> Received from Olivier LAHAYE on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:18:48AM EST:
> > xfig and transfig 3.2.5 have final versions since 21 Mars 2007.
> > The current cooker version are alpha versions packaged on 25th May 2007
> >
> > Can it be updated to the final stable versions?
> >
> > --
> > 	Olivier LAHAYE
>
> I'll look into this.

Thanks a lot Lev.

BTW, is there a clear process to warn of an obsolete package?
I rememberseeing this topic some times ago but can't find an answer to it.

IMHO, there are 3 ways:
1) bugzilla
2) mail on cooker
3) mail to the packages author (or most recent package according to changelog)

Which one is preferable?

Lev, you're one of the most reactive for all of thiese categories, but that's 
not the case for every body, and I'd like to conform as best as I can to 
Mandriva rules.

So far, I see the pro and cons of the above methodes:
- with bugzilla reports, there are many newer versions request that becomes 
obsolete.
- with mail on coocker, it can be seen as pollution (though, it permits to a 
contributor that is not the original package maintaine to take the action
- with mail to author, sometimes, there is no answer (either because he left 
the project or because his mail is no-longer the one written in changelog or 
because he percieve this request as a work order instead of a awareness 
report): example, I reported the fact that current octave-forge package is 
obsolete and incompatible with the current octave package and I indicated the 
way to generate the new octave-forge sub packages, but I had no answers)

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	Olivier LAHAYE
	Motorola Labs IT Manager
	Computer & Information Systems
	European Communications Research