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Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility



On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Obsolete binary packages in a configurable list of archive sections
> (currently "libs" and "oldlibs", although the latter is somewhat
> debatable) are not automatically removed when the source package is
> updated; instead they are kept in testing temporarily to ease
> transitions.  At the end of each run, britney will attempt to remove any
> such packages she finds.

Yep, I also disagree on the oldlibs bit, FWIW.  Are we also getting a list of
packages that are still keeping old libraries in testing?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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