Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 19:35 +0000, Mark Hymers wrote:
> In gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy, you wrote:
> > I think it's worth mentioning in the policy footnote that the Debian
> > archive doesn't (well, won't, to be entirely accurate) support the
> > feature and removing the suggestion that there is a "frozen"
> > distribution. As such, I'd be quite happy with Colin's suggested patch.
>
> I should also clarify that we might support it at the moment, but I've
> no idea if it actually works. It seems that we can either 1) make sure
> it works or 2) drop it from being supported (although as people have
> said, just in the debian-specific case). Either of these is fine by me,
> but relying on something which hasn't been tested for > 5 years is
> probably not that sensible.
My opinion should be obvious by now, but for the record I'd vote for
option two. I can't see any merit in maintaining support for it in
Debian and officially killing it removes any expectation that it might
work.
Adam
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