Quoting Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2016-08-01 23:11:58) > On 01/08/16 17:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Yes, most of those activities are not in Debian - just as most of >> shell scripts depending on Zsh is not in Debian, but it would still >> be a bad idea to kick that package judging from its reverse >> dependencies (I guess: I am not a Zsh user myself). > > The difference is that zsh doesn't depend on and isn't blocking the > removal of a bunch of deprecated packages :P > > There is software out there using all kinds of old libraries - yet we > keep removing old and unmaintained stuff from Debian.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. I bet you can find many cases of "old unmaintained stuff" e.g. in our TeX codebase. What I think is appropriate to address is old, unmaintained and *broken* stuff. Are python wrappers for GTK+ 2.x _broken_? If the real issue here is that GNOME team no longer find the package relevant, then perhaps instead of removing pass over maintenance to others who do? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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