Re: do not delete gnome-1
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> This is inappropriate. There are still gnome-1 programs in Debian.
> The upstream developers are converting to gnome-2 as soon as they can,
> but they aren't ready yet.
And what if they never do the switch? We can't keep GNOME 1 forever.
> Orphan packages that you don't want to maintain, and I'm happy to
> maintain what actually needs a non-orphaned maintainer.
Not only will you be Maintainer, but also upstream. It's hard to
measure how big and how many packages there are.
> Do not delete packages only because you think nobody should use them;
> delete packages when no packages *do* use them. gnucash, for example,
> is an important Debian package used by many people.
While it is generous for our users to offer your time to maintain old
software, I'm not sure you're really doing them a favor with respect to
bug fixes, and I'm not sure keeping so many old packages won't pressure
the release team and the security team: in the end, it also hurts
non-GNOME 1 users.
Bye,
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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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