On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:43:49PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > Package: gtk-gnutella > > Version: 0.96.1svn12109-1 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: none > > > > As described in gtk-gnutella FAQ, non-stable versions expire after 90 > > days, while old stable versions expire after a year. Since Debian stable > > versions take a long time to be released, I suggest releasing the stable > > version 0.96.2 for Etch. Besides, it's more recent than the current > > version on sid. > > > > There is a reason for this expire/ban after some time. The gnutella > > network is an evolving network and its stability depends on good > > servents around. > > Expire to which entent? No longer supported upstream or broken in > functionality due to network changes? If it's the latter, we should > remove gtk-gnutella from stable and support it through volatile.debian.org > instead. > > Cheers, > Moritz
It's the latter. It's programmatically expired. User gets notified when gtk-gnutella finds a newer version on the network, and program refuses to start if it's expired unless user configures it not to. I agree that updates through volatile are more apropriate. Regards, Thadeu Cascardo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
