On 04/04/20 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Lucas > > On 03-04-2020 22:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > There are a few things that strike me: > > > > - first, one can see how the number of package in testing decreases > > slowly during freezes, as broken packages are removed > > And interesting to see that this hardly happened during the last freeze. > > > - second, it's surprising to see how the number of packages has been > > quite stable since the beginning of the buster freeze > > I expect this to be the result of the Python2 support removal which has > caused lots of packages to be removed from the archive. > > > I keep wondering if we should make an effort to remove from testing > > packages whose packaging 'style' is clearly outdated, such as packages > > not updated since 2004 ('beav' is an example)... > > Is there something wrong with those packages? If so, what is it exactly? > You can file RC bugs for real issues obviously. Well, no, there doesn't seem to be any serious user-visible issues. That's why I keep wondering whether it makes sense to just keep all this technical debt around. Lucas
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