On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 07:24:50PM +0200, tomas pospisek wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Steve Langasek wrote: > > What's the point of taking up disk space on all of our mirrors for > **************** > > packages that not even the MAINTAINER thinks are worth keeping around? > Please reread the thread from last week [1]. Try to understand. > > Proposals that would tie our hands and require us to become > > sourceforge-like in our dedication to useless software do not benefit > ******* > > real users. > To repeat once again: > Software is useful when it's used. In order to keep the discusion > real: yes, I'm using fpm. See "the point"? Then adopt it, or offer arguments against its removal, or continue using the version from stable, which is equivalent to having an unmaintained package anyway. But when one of our developers tells us "this software that I packaged is no longer useful", there is no reason we should do anything by default other than taking the maintainer's word for it. The burden is not on Debian to show that a piece of software has no users. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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