[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs gd, libgd2, libgd_dev, libwmf, libwmf(...)

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Mar 09 15:21:57 -0500 2011:
>
>> Errr.. this package seems to have been generated for no good reason
>> whatsoever. So I'm dropping it.
>> It would be nice if could eliminate this stuff from appearing in the future.
>> Or better yet, have something appear that says, "Hey! Rename the old
>> devel to the new dev please"
>
> Actually, this is the obsoletes mechanism at work.  For users with the
> old (_devel) package installed, an update will pull this in, which in
> turn pulls in the new _dev package.  The old is easily identified by
> /var/sadm/pkg/CSWfoo/obsolete.  In the fairly near future, pkgutil is
> going to sprout an option to search and destroy on these packages.
>
> The _devel package is empty of real content but provides a smooth
> transition.

and do we have a writeup of all this somewheres?
It's usually a good idea to have documentation of major changes like
this stuff, BEFORE implementing it.
Not to mention, a discussion on the mailing list about it.