Hi,
While browsing the available software in the repos to do some QA-testing, I noticed some strange things.
For example both Comix and mcomix are available as packages while comix has been abandoned by the developpers since 2009 and mcomix has forked comix to deliver bugfixes and other stuff.
It’s strange that Mageia5 continues to ship obsolete package next to another whcich is almost a duplicate of the first but improved and it keeps going year after year...
It’s a waste of energy for the team to maintain that type of soft (except if it's a personnal preference from a packager, I don't know)
, that’s why checking for other similarities and cleaning the software included in the repos is important.
It would require a bit of time the first time, but I’m sure it will be worth it in the long run.
We would gain time to work on other things by dropping some obsolete/duplicate soft.