[packman] Clean up PMOBS part 1: gstreamer

[Detlef Reichelt]

Am Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:53:04 +0100
schrieb todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Detlef Reichelt
> <detlef at die-mafia.de> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:36:51 +0100
> > schrieb Christian <chris at computersalat.de>:
> >
> >> > 1140_libmms
> >> >
> >> > Build libmms up to 1140, 1210 and later have libmms in oss.
> >> why does libmms need to have such "magic" names ?
> >
> > It is easier to see why we build libmms: We need it for <= 1140
> > If we don't build for 11.4 anymore, it is easy to delete old
> > unneeded packages, because we can delete all 1140_*... ;)
> >
> > It could help to have PMOBS more cleaner.
> 
> But if we disable building for anything after 11.4, wouldn't it
> already be obvious it isn't needed anymore?  When an opemsuse distro
> is removed, just go through and delete all packages that are disabled
> for all remaining repos.

The naming style is not realy important, but it is easy to do an "osc rm
1140_*". Mostly we forget to check pmobs for old files, nobody cares
about. But with a name like $DIST_$NAME for a package which is obsolete
at some point, it is like a big yellow post-it: "You can kick me
now!" ;)

Detlef