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Re: Packages with /outdated/ packaging style



On 28/12/15 at 13:23 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:20:21PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Excluding duplicates, a total of 5469 packages are listed. The dd-list for the
> > merged list is available at
> > https://people.debian.org/~lucas/qa-20151226/merged.ddlist (which isn't very
> > useful, except to know if you are listed; see how to grep individual lists
> > above).
> 
> Hmm... Are you suggesting that "hello-traditional" should be converted to dh?
> 
> I have mixed feelings about putting in the same bag things which are
> clearly bugs with things which are not necessarily bugs.

See the disclaimer at the top of the mail you quoted:
> Of course not all practices highlighted below are deprecated, and
> there are good reasons to continue to do some of them.  But still,
> given that they all represent a clear minority of packages, I thought
> that it would be useful to list the related packages.  (I honestly
> didn't know if some of my packages would show up in the lists!)

Lucas


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