Re: gnome 1.x removal
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> 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."
We can surely keep all old cruft in the archive and never release again
(or not with these packages anyway), though I don't think that is
preferred from a quality assurance, security nor release point of view...
Cheers
Luk
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