Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of
Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)"):
> Bastien ROUCARIES writes ("Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable
> releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)"):
> > Why not un this case creating an empty package depending of an non existing
> > package ?
>
> Because we should leave the user the choice to keep using the
> unsupported software, rather than ripping it out from under them.
Oh, wait, I don't think I read your proposal correctly. I'm not sure
exactly what effect this would have but, presumably, mostly a
complaint from the package manager ?
Ian.
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