Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Julien Cristau [Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:38:00 +0200]:

> On Wed, Aug  6, 2008 at 20:47:50 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:

> > Now, the idea would be to deprecate this feature, used by 8 packages in
> > unstable, dropping complications in the database backend and the pool
> > layout which we would want to avoid.

> Maybe you could tell us what the benefit of dropping this would be (as
> in, what are the changes you allude to, and why can't they work with
> this feature).

I agree this would be useful.

I do think that allowing packages in main to provide binaries in contrib
is useful, so I'd like to hear what the benefits would be if we'd agree
to lose it.

Thanks,

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