Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd prefer Debian releases to consist of properly supported packages as >> much as possible. It's not as if we want to forcibly delete the packages >> from our user's machines, we'd just acknowledge that they aren't >> maintained anymore. > > Me too, but I wonder if we are actually achieving that goal. > > Consider a package which is in this category. Right now it gets some > level of maintenance; it gets bugfixes for RC bugs at least, and other > such things happen. It gets security updates as we know about them, > and so forth.
Actually, it doesn't. :-P It's a nice dream, but with hundreds of QA-maintained packages, these nearly-unused ones mostly do not get even basic maintenance. > If it gets dropped entirely, then the user doesn't get any notice of > that fact; their system just keeps on going as before. Until they run dselect and it shows up as a "local/obsolete" package: that's how I generally get notice of dropped packages. I don't know what other frontends do, but they ought to do something similar. > Except that > the package now gets *no* updates instead of minimal ones. > > Thomas -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
