On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 19:35 +0000, Mark Hymers wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy, you wrote: > > I think it's worth mentioning in the policy footnote that the Debian > > archive doesn't (well, won't, to be entirely accurate) support the > > feature and removing the suggestion that there is a "frozen" > > distribution. As such, I'd be quite happy with Colin's suggested patch. > > I should also clarify that we might support it at the moment, but I've > no idea if it actually works. It seems that we can either 1) make sure > it works or 2) drop it from being supported (although as people have > said, just in the debian-specific case). Either of these is fine by me, > but relying on something which hasn't been tested for > 5 years is > probably not that sensible.
My opinion should be obvious by now, but for the record I'd vote for option two. I can't see any merit in maintaining support for it in Debian and officially killing it removes any expectation that it might work. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
