Hi,
I'm always more in favor of removing old cruft than adding complicated wording
to document old cruft forever.
Here there could be a compromise that (some of...) the existing usage
are grandfathered,
like the provision in Policy 4.7.2 for /usr/games/{thing} that
conflicts with /usr/games/{thing}
that made a lot of packages instantaneously RC-buggy in 4.7.1
BTW I removed DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL from cdbs.
And lownmu'd the single last half-abandoned package still recommending
it in a comment.
I hope it makes FTP Master life easier.
Greetings
Alexandre
Le mar. 8 avr. 2025 à 14:56, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> a écrit :
> There is a relatively long tail of obsolete libraries that are no longer
> used by GNOME, no longer maintained upstream and would ideally be
> removed from Debian altogether, but cannot be removed yet because they
> still have other packages depending on them. In general the team still
> carries out minimal maintenance on those obsolete libraries to keep them
> on life-support, but fixing non-critical issues in them is not anyone's top
> priority.
