On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 08:30:52PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > While I fully support properly marking obsolete packages by putting > them in the (unfortunately misnamed :) oldlibs section (well excluding > library-like depended on packages that get dropped as a mater of course). > I wanted to note that I've received some pushback from the archive > maintainers about this being considered unnecessary churn (paraphrasing > from what ISTR). So it would be nice to clarify this with them before > creating and proposing a procedure that might end up generating social > friction. I tend to agree. Already now maintainers forget to drop transitional packages after having them been part of *two* releases (I have filed >400 bugs requesting removal of such old transitional packages in the last 10y, so roughly 80 per release), so I don't think requiring them to do *more* will work out nicely.
(also this adds workload to ftpmasters too.)
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