On 7/8/19 10:10 AM, Ansgar wrote: > Thomas Goirand writes: >> On 7/7/19 5:31 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> you can start dropping it now, however please don't drop anything yet with >>> reverse dependencies. So leaf packages first. >> >> I'm sorry, but I think I need to contest this. Doing things in order, >> first leaf, then go all the way back, will take too long, and this is >> IMO unnecessary effort. Older binary packages will anyway stay in the >> archive as long as they are needed, and no FTP hint is added (please >> correct me if I'm wrong here... but that's what I saw in the past). > > Packages usually don't migrate to testing if they cause packages to be > uninstallable which will happen if you start breaking reverse > dependencies. Will that be the case here?
Right. Which will be an incentive to fix the reverse-dependency, and a way to see what work is remaining to be done. Maybe we can also do a mass-bugfilling after a period we can discuss (probably during Debconf?). > Removing an entire language isn't a simple case, even less so when > doesn't mean we just remove all packages written in said language Right. Thomas
