Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote:
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>
> then do not many orphaned packages (if not most) fit into one of the
> proposed resons and should be removed from testing?
>
> I think many packages could benefite from this in-the-middle approach:
> instead of completely removing them from debian or letting them get
> released with stable, they just stay in unstable and never migrate.
>
> it would not be keeping them "just for the shake of keeping them"
> either. it would be keeping those that may be of some interest for
> some users, but which don't qualify as release quality and are not
> being maintained at all (except for sporadic QA uploads).
But that would generally mean that due to dependencies, users interested in
these "too hard basket" packages had to run unstable (or sizeable parts
thereof) in order to install them... I guess it depends on your target
audience for such packages...
regards
Andrew
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