Previously James A. Treacy wrote: > It would be much better if packages weren't removed from the archive while there > are still others which depend on it. Both policy and GPL don't allow that however, since it would mean we distributes binaries without source.. > The new scripts for generating the web pages work out all package > dependencies and could be easily modified to print out a list of packages > that depend on a particular package. Richard Braakman has had a script to check dependencies for a long time now. The results should be online somewhere, don't know where though. > Such a script should be used before any packages are removed from the > archive. Even if it is decided that the package be removed, people will know > immediately the scope of the problem and start working on a solution - > instead of discovering it weeks later. What should be done is that if a ftp-admin decides to remove a package he should announce it on -devel IMHO. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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