>>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> writes:

AW> (Interestingly, there is actually a way to solve this
AW> *retroactively*: the other week I was kicking around the idea of
AW> setting up a third-party repo containing a single package named
AW> fedora-obsoletes which just contains a bunch of obsoletes for
AW> known-retired-but-not-obsoleted packages.

There is already a package in the distribution called
"fedora-obsolete-packages" which exists only to obsolete things.

AW> I think I've proposed at least once that we make Obsoletes: for
AW> retired packages mandatory. My last proposal currently seems to be
AW> assigned to tibbs.

I don't recall anything about _forcing_ retired packages to be
obsoleted.  The current rules just say that you must do so if allowing
the package to continue to exist would cause dependency issues.  Forcing
the removal of packages from systems when not necessary is somewhat
draconian.

 - J<
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