[csw-maintainers] Drop koffice_gcc ?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 21.12.2011 um 14:27 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Wed Dec 21 07:39:51 -0500 2011:
> 
>> Ok, should I delete koffice_gcc with csw-upload-pkg then?
> 
> +1.  I agree with Maciej that things that we should focus on the
> strengths and not let fringe stuff hold back progress.  If somebody
> becomes interested, it can be re-added at that time.

I can't delete that:

> dam at login [login]:/export/mirror/opencsw-official/allpkgs > csw-upload-pkg --remove koffice_addons-1.3-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_gcc-1.6.3-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_gcc-1.6.3-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_i18n-1.3.5-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz 
> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.10
> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.11
> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.8
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 606, in <module>
>     uploader.Remove()
>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 179, in Remove
>     self._RemoveFile(filename)
>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 192, in _RemoveFile
>     self._RemoveFromCatalog(filename, cat_arch, cat_osrel, file_metadata)
>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 235, in _RemoveFromCatalog
>     % (url, http_code, d.getvalue()))
> __main__.RestCommunicationError: http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/releases/catalogs/unstable/i386/SunOS5.8/a20559ab50efba6edebf5d33191c58b0/ - HTTP code: 406, content: {"error_message": "package deletions from an obsolete OS release such as SunOS5.8 are not allowed"}
> zsh: 6349 exit 1     csw-upload-pkg --remove koffice_addons-1.3-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz   
> dam at login [login]:/export/mirror/opencsw-official/allpkgs > 

Just deleting from Solaris 9+10 seems wrong to me. I propose to not integrate koffice_* into
dublin and publish the updates for my lib only on the new release.


Best regards

  -- Dago



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