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Re: Cleaning up versioned packages



On 2022/11/2 02:28, Alexander Kjäll wrote:
> I'm generally positive to a cleanup effort, only thing is that a
> freeze is somewhat close, so if we remove packages that is a
> stepping-stone in order to get an ITP bug resolved we might discourage
> someone from contributing to Debian.

Hi Alex,

Those are all *versioned* packages, e.g. `rand-0.5`. It shouldn't be much a
problem for new ITPs. If a new ITP does need an older version dependency, we
could always try patching it to use newer version.

-- 
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis

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