Hello, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt schrieb: > For some time now, I have been thinking about the problem of packages > which are removed from the archive at some point, without an (enforced) > transition to a new package name. Users of such packages keep them > around, usually never noticing the fact that no security (or other) > support is available anymore.
I have somewhat of a deja-vù here with that thread. When I remember correctly just about the beginning of this year there was a discussion about how to find/remove/manage obsolete packages either here on -devel or on -mentors. The aptitude-way Frans pointed out was mentioned there too (maybe by Frans, I can't recall). So the solution then was "the user must check aptitudes obsolete category". And for me that is enough, though a automatic notification by aptitude, when a package is added to that category would be nice. Kind regards, Kai P.S.: This e-mail is just a "reminder", that this was already discussed, but I have right now no time to search the archives. But eventually it helps to avoid reiterating all pros and cons. -- Kai Wasserbäch (Kai Wasserbaech) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber (debianforum.de): Drizzt URL: http://wiki.debianforum.de/Drizzt_Do%27Urden GnuPG: 0xE1DE59D2 0600 96CE F3C8 E733 E5B6 1587 A309 D76C E1DE 59D2 (http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xE1DE59D2&fingerprint=on&hash=on&op=vindex)
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