Bug#753500: RM: movabletype-opensource/4.3.8+dfsg-0+squeeze4

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:10:13PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 17:00 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > as briefly discussed on #debian-release. Please remove this package
> > in the 6.0.10 point release. It's not covered by squeeze-lts support
> > and debian-security-support marks existing packages as deprecated.
> 
> How much were the decisions on what is (or, more to the point, isn't)
> covered in -lts based on discussion with the maintainers?

The list of unsupported packages was discussed on the debian-lts mailing list.
E.g. the maintainer of movabletype took part in the discussion.

> > Removing it ensures that new squeeze installations (which can still
> > happen in some cases) odon't install an unsupported package. It make
> > tracking open issues easier. And the binaries can still be fetched
> > from snapshot.debian.org.
> 
> I'm slightly in two minds about some of these, partly because some of
> the packages have been getting updates during squeeze's lifetime.

And they've all been EOLed for a reason. That we somehow managed to support
some applications for three years doesn't mean the same applies to five years
(e.g. typo3).

Cheers,
        Moritz