On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote:
I had this thought during the above discussion about compat-wireless: Do we
really need unstable? Almost nobody uses it and let's see which packages are
in there:
opera-devel
firefox3
kernel26mm
fvwm-devel
gimp-devel
reiser4progs + dependencies.
openoffice-devel
mplayer-svn
Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped anyway
(including the external modules for kernel26mm). The packages that are
actually being maintained can IMO be moved to extra. Everybody who installs a
-svn or -devel package probably knows it is unstable (firefox3 should be
renamed to firefox-devel then).
So I'm asking you: What is the point of having a repository with <30
packages, half of which are neither used nor maintained? Except maybe
confusion among users (wait? enable unstable? isn't that dangerous?).
You forgot gqview-devel in your list. The package is up-to-date and it
works fine. I've been using it for years as my main image viewer without
any problems. I don't see why we wouldn't keep it.
I agree about removing the out-of-date and old packages unless a dev wants
to actively maintain them.
I don't mind wether we keep the rest in the unstable repo or move them in
extra. If we move them in extra, we could add "Developement version" at
the end of the package description to inform the user.
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