Re: Python 2 removal in sid/bullseye: Progress and next steps

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> schrieb:
> One maintainer doesn't get to block the removal of an entire stack like Qt4.
> I think there's a reasonable point of discussion about when RoQA is
> appropriate, but there comes a time when stuff just has to go.
> That doesn't make it a free for all, but for old, unsupported libs
> we should have a bias towards action.

We should even work towards automating this further; if a package is
RC-buggy for longer than say a year (with some select exceptions)
it should just get auto-removed from the archive.

These "transitions" of phasing out obsolete software (qt4, openssl 1.0,
etc.) are currently too manual and too time-consuming.

Cheers,
        Moritz