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Re: Diety UI draft



Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com> wrote:
> The problem being that I'm not sure how we could tell the difference.
> 
> The only way I can think of detecting a depricated package is that
> if a package maintainer re-uploads the depricated package with
> "depricated" in it's keyword list.  Do maintainers really want to
> do that?
> 
> Do you have any other ideas?

The presence, in a packages file, of either a newer version of
the package or a package which superceeds the package should be
required before a package may be considered obsolete.

-- 
Raul


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