On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote: > Hi Guix, > > on Guix-Days we had no more time in the QA track to talk about obsolete > packages. > > In the FOSDEM-talk by Frederic Crozat (SuSE) about Distributions, he > mentioned their approach which I find good to adapt: > > > If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it > from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing > list, maybe someone will care about it then. If there is no response > within 2 weeks, we really remove it. > > What do you think?
+1. It would also be nice to add an OBSOLETE/DEPRECATE tag or comment which can be removed when a package works again. This could be made visible as metadata. Maybe even link it with debbugs. Pj.
