Re: gnome 1.x removal
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:39 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@skolelinux.no> writes:
> > "As long as there's interest the software will stay alive" is one of the
> > main tenets of Free Software. Consequently, IMHO, as long as there's people
> > willing to maintain it, it shouldn't be removed regardless of how old it
> > is.
>
> GNOME 1.x is neither maintained in Debian nor upstream. Noone has
> stepped forward to keep it alive. The main reason that it's still in
> Debian is that we don't clean up often enough.
This is what was said the last time. But nobody asked the maintainers
of gnome 1.x packages whether they would maintain it; the team just
decreed that nobody would step forward, and started deleting packages.
It caused a major headache. I'm asking for a more orderly process this
time. Instead of saying "we're deleting this, you will all have to
adapt", say, "we aren't maintaining this anymore; if you want it, you'll
have to start taking it over."
Thomas
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