Previously Bdale Garbee wrote: > I believe that we must have the ability to remove an orig.tar.gz and all > derived objects from the archive under certain circumstances which have > already been articulated by others. If the current toolset doesn't support > that, it should be fixed.
Of course the toolset does support that. What it means that X will disappear completely from the archive and an extremely large portion of packages will suddenly no longer be installable and all mirrors will have a sudden large hit that might cause them to be out of sync for a few days. Now, contrast that with an approach where a new .orig.tar.gz with a slightly different filename is uploaded which allows for a smooth transition. Users will never notice the change, and we still accomplish the goal of removing the non-DFSG bits completely. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
