On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. That would also fit, for example, packages abandoned upstream, or packages that have a better alternative, but that still have users. It will also provide a path for planning removals of packages from the archive, when the maintainer is still ok with maintaining a package and fixing its bugs, but in his/her long term plan the package should eventually go away. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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