On 08/16/2012 04:42 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:42:52AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> With much more pro-active removals happening these days we tend to get >> a lot of folks wanting to reintroduce removed packages, perhaps we >> need a comprehensive section in devref about this. I will file a bug >> about it. > > Or perhaps we should stop these unnecessary "pro-active" removals.
They are rarely unnecessary. There is no reason to keep unmaintained and (RC-) buggy packages in Debian - in the current state I doubt it would have been shipped with wheezy anyway. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502d0b2b.9090...@bzed.de
