Re: do not delete gnome-1

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Thomas Bushnell wrote:
>The point here is that the proper thing to do with a package you don't
>want to maintain, but which other Debian packages need, is to *orphan
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>it*.

In case anyone was wondering, I agree.  I'm all in favor of withdrawing 
packages which are at the top of their dependency chain, but removing 
libpng10 while gdk-imlib1 and a huge tree of packages still depend on it was 
not a good idea.  Sadly I only noticed after the fact: while working on a 
possible NMU for a completely different package I discovered that its 
build-depends were uninstallable, and finally tracked it down to the 
disappearance of libpng10.

-- 
Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@twcny.rr.com>

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