On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
Daniel Holth writes:
> When I used Obsoletes, it meant "I am no longer developing this other
> package that is identical to this re-named package".
But as a user I could care less! The authors may care, but I don't
care if Torqued "obsoletes" Gorgon, because in using Torqued I'm
DTRT'ing even though I don't know it.
What I care about is when I'm using Gorgon, and there's something
"better" (or worse, "correct") to use in my application.
Hence my suggestion for an Obsoleted-By field, in which Gorgon would be able to suggest alternatives.
It might be a good idea to have a just-like-Amazon
While-This-Package-Is-Great-You-Might-Also-Consider:
field.
Yeah, that's basically what Obsoleted-By is for.