Re: Intent to remove netmon-applet package
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:42:59AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:57:52PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> >> christophe barbe <christophe@cattlegrid.net> writes:
> >>> What about providing reasons to keep it in the archive instead of asking
> >>> (stupid) questions.
> >> A package is no problem as long it has no release-critical bugs, so
> >> there is no reason to remove it.
> > Ok, but we need a bit of direction for not having the unsuspecting user
> > install it thinking it is of good quality and well supported, when in
> > fact it is not.
>
> Software can be in a good shape *and* not be supported at the time (at
> least very small applications like this). As long as it's useful for
> some people, there's no reason to remove it or add "THIS IS NOT
> MAINTAINED; GO AWAY AND USE SOMETHING ELSE" notices.
Yep but Christophe spoke about missing features and bugs, so ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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