Re: Unmaintained Debian packages section&BTS tags
Good point, can you revise my proposal? I would like a place for packages
that get removed from the regular archives. This would be a place to catch
the unmaintained packages, buggy and less frequently used packages that
are removed from the archives.
I would not encourage the removal of packages just because they are
unmaintained. I would like a place for packages to be given a second
chance should they be removed from the current Debian archives.
Drew Daniels
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > I propose that such packages be removed instead. Any developer can
> > always resurrect the package.
> >
> > Before anybody bites my head off, I do not propose that a package be
> > removed simply because it's unmaintained. That would be just as bad an
> > idea as moving it to a separate archive simply because it's
> > unmaintained; it would introduce instability for no good reason.
> > However, long-term unmaintained packages should be considered as being
> > up for removal if there isn't a good reason to keep them.
>
> The argument should go the other way round: they should be kept unless
> there's a good reason to remove them. Yes, I strongly object to your
> proposal.
> *t
>
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