On 01/08/16 17:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Yes, most of those activities are not in Debian - just as most of shell > scripts depending on Zsh is not in Debian, but it would still be a bad > idea to kick that package judging from its reverse dependencies (I > guess: I am not a Zsh user myself).
The difference is that zsh doesn't depend on and isn't blocking the removal of a bunch of deprecated packages :P There is software out there using all kinds of old libraries - yet we keep removing old and unmaintained stuff from Debian. Cheers, Emilio