Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Lucas
Nussbaum<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> Removal of orphaned packages
> ============================
> The audience clearly want orphaned packages to be removed. I'm not quite
> sure it's reasonable to do that. However, clearly, there's no opposition
> to this idea. When snapshots.debian.org will be fully fonctional, a web
> interface will allow users to fetch and install removed packages.
I forgot to mention it during the discussion, but s.d.o isn't an
optimal solution due to library ABI bumps and so on. I think a proper
solution is something like unsupported.debian.net or
debian-unsupported.org, documented here (but not yet worked on):
http://wiki.debian.org/MergeDerivedDistributions#DebianUnsupported
This is similar to the below idea:
> Move of orphaned packages to another place
> ==========================================
> Another possible solution would be to move orphaned packages to another
> section/archive area (i.e something sitting next to unstable or
> experimental), or just to experimental.
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bye,
pabs
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