On 2017-02-23 09:49, Santiago Vila wrote:
Of course it's not word-by-word what I wrote, but it was clearly the
meaning: When we remove packages from the distribution because we
don't need them anymore, we don't just remove them from testing, we
remove them from both testing and unstable.
[...]
So what's the point in talking about the freeze in your previous
message? It's not too late to remove a whole compiler but it's too
late to remove a leaf package on which no other Debian package depends
for years?
I would really like to understand the logic of your reasoning, but I
still can't, sorry.
You are talking about stretch. The bug's title is stretch. You are
talking about a removal from a frozen set of packages right after we
have frozen. In your mind freezing is only to not allow new packages to
go in. In my mind it's also freezing the set of packages to not
arbitrarily remove them post-freeze. Especially if the reverse
dependencies are outside of the archive and hence unknown.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
