On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Indeed. It shouldn't be anything harder than adding 'deprecated' (non-library, deprecated software) to complement oldlibs, ask tools to treat them equally, and when we're satisfied that they do, just get rid of oldlibs. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enr...@debian.org>
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