On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59:27AM +0000, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. > That would also fit, for example, packages abandoned upstream, or > packages that have a better alternative, but that still have users. > It will also provide a path for planning removals of packages from the > archive, when the maintainer is still ok with maintaining a package and > fixing its bugs, but in his/her long term plan the package should > eventually go away. There are tools that understand the special meaning of the 'oldlibs' section and treat it specially; at least deborphan comes to mind, there may be others. I don't see the necessity for such a section rename, but if it happens I think it needs to be announced in advance and coordinated. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
