* Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040618 23:10]: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > >Well, I'm not speaking of investing any time now on them, but just to > >alert their maintainers and users that if the packages keep on being > >unfit for release, these packages will be removed after release.
> Why? I'd actually like to see *more* packages that are unstable-only, > rather than have mediocre or dead-end packages enter the stable release. > There are a lot of packages whose upstream is a rapidly moving target > and which there's frankly not a lot of point in packaging for a stable > release that's got to survive for years. Two answers to that: 1. I really hope that we are able to release more often in future. Releasing only every four years is a dead end. 2. Please see "exception" below: Of course, if the maintainer considers his own package unfit for release because upstream is not stable enough, than this is ok. But - if the package was removed from testing because of FTBFS, and just didn't manage to re-enter, because this bug is still open, than the package really qualifies for removal / orphaning. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
