* paddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041011 15:35]: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:02:47PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Of course we need to reserve the right to drop packages - but, doing > > that would still be bad. Adding a package to volatile means for me that > > we are very confident that we can support it till the current debian > > major release is archived. If we can't do that, we shouldn't have added > > it in the first place.
> Hmm, deja vu ;) > > What happens to packages that become orphaned? The same that happens with them in stable. The volatile team has to keep care of them till the current debian major release is archived. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C