Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:39 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "As long as there's interest the software will stay alive" is one of the >>> main tenets of Free Software. Consequently, IMHO, as long as there's people >>> willing to maintain it, it shouldn't be removed regardless of how old it >>> is. >> GNOME 1.x is neither maintained in Debian nor upstream. Noone has >> stepped forward to keep it alive. The main reason that it's still in >> Debian is that we don't clean up often enough. > > This is what was said the last time. But nobody asked the maintainers > of gnome 1.x packages whether they would maintain it; the team just > decreed that nobody would step forward, and started deleting packages. > It caused a major headache. I'm asking for a more orderly process this > time. Instead of saying "we're deleting this, you will all have to > adapt", say, "we aren't maintaining this anymore; if you want it, you'll > have to start taking it over."
We can surely keep all old cruft in the archive and never release again (or not with these packages anyway), though I don't think that is preferred from a quality assurance, security nor release point of view... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
