Policy regarding ancient/orphaned packages

Hi folks! In discussions with other debian developers one important question was mentioned: Should we drop ancient/orphaned packages from our "distribution" and move them to some other directory in the archive? The background: We claim to have more than 200 volunteers working on our distri

Bug#13056: marked as done (libdnd should not depend on elf-x11r6lib)

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Bug#12891: marked as done (libdnd1 should not depend on elf-x11r6lib)

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Bug#12819: marked as done (offix-trash built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12805: marked as done (offix-editor built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12796: marked as done (offix-files built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12795: marked as done (offix-execute built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12794: marked as done (offix-clipboard built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12788: marked as done (libdnd1 built with both libc5 and libc6-based libs)

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Bug#12654: marked as done (libdnd1 depends on obsolete virtual package elf-x11r6lib)

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