Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> Do we have any guidelines about "retiring" packages? > > Not yet! > > Of course there’s a fine line here: we cannot systematically retire > packages “just” because they have bugs (all of them do ;-)). So we have > to be cautious. In this case, it can be considered a serious bug in the > package’s core functionality, *and* there’s a fix provided by a fork, so > I see no obstacle in removing it.
This seems reasonable. ~~ Ricardo