Sounds interesting. On the other hand, maybe we could do it manually
(from a
packager's point of view) : if you package library foo, and you know that
version 0.1 is not supported anymore (noone knows that better than you
since you maintain it), you can add an Obsoletes tag to your libfoo5
package, and force the removal.
Would that solve Jeff's issue ?
Obsoletes should be used when a package changes name. Not when someone
thinks a new version gets rid of an old version.
-sv