On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:51:28AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Basically, this amounts to perpetually keeping obsolete packages. Is a good choice?
Well, at least you've learned why debian has so much obsolete junk--the "every package is sacred crowd" comes along every time this topic comes up. Yes, it should be obvious that an orphaned package that nobody uses should be axed. Apparantly, though, it is not. You'd think that if someone really cared about one of the packages they'd adopt it. Even if it's removed, the older version is still available in the archive, so someone could revive it if they really wanted to. But no, there are some that think debian has some kind of moral imperative to never clean up. It's a shame, really.
Mike Stone