On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > > Well we could also revert back to my initial plan to just remove it and > > add some notes to the release notes. But that leaves quite some people with > > a dead package around. Is that more userfriendly than a forced migration with > > a very manual migration path? I also don't find the idea very appealing to > > carry around dead softare when we have an actively maintained alternative > > available. > Quite often we remove packages from Debian without leaving any > migration path at all, so this is far from the least userfriendly > removal in Debian history. Lack of migration path sucks but isn't > relevant from a removal perspective. Indeed. We could also help people by making more people know that an alternative exists and how can they switch to it. -- WBR, wRAR
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