On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:34:36AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > One thing I did just think of - in the case of existing systems, rather than > new installations, the last version which was in the archive will be kept on > people's systems on upgrade, which should help reduce the issue - as long as > the person doesn't blow away their system and reinstall, and the newer > versions of libraries the package depends on don't change their semantics, > there shouldn't be any big hassles. You are awre that we archive previous releases, so a package removed from the current archive will still be available in its previous incarnation, should someone want to pick it up (or install the old unmaintained crap.) -- Mike Stone
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