On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Should this packages be listed as orphan, or should they be encouraged to > disappear?
I think the way to handle this is, if you *really* want to see them disappear, then find all the packages that depend on them and fix it so they don't. Take over maintenance, and either re-write the obsolete module so it's a wrapper of the new one (so the package won't disappear, but it'll at least have the superior <whatever> of the replacement), or rewrite the other stuff that depends on it. Once that's done, as the maintainer you can ask ftpmaster to make them go away. If there's currently nothing in the archive which needs it, then maybe ask ftpmaster to make it go away anyway, as it's (a) unneeded, and (b) superceded. Anyone who has local scripts (stuff which they've written themselves) which use the old modules won't be overly disadvantaged by their disappearance - they weren't getting updates for the module anyway, and it's not as though apt removes packages from your system just because they're no longer in the archive... -- Matthew Palmer, Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org
