On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 01:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > The maintainer is unwilling to retire them.
> > 
> > I think we should ask FESCo to force them to be retired. It's
> > confusing
> > to have ancient versions of the packages in the distro, and they will
> > stick around forever if not.
> 
> I do not see why we would want to force removing working, maintained 
> packages from the distribution. That is a major disservice to users and
> basically a "screw you" to the maintainer. Whom does that help?
> 
> GLib 1 and GTK+ 1 are compatibility libraries. It is their whole
> purpose to 
> "stick around forever", at least as long as somebody is willing to
> maintain 
> them. They are needed to keep legacy applications working.
> 
> If FESCo wants to get involved at all (I do not really see any need for
> them 
> to intervene in the first place), I ask FESCo to affirm that a
> compatibility 
> library can remain in the distribution as long as it is maintained and
> to 
> ask people to refrain from posting unhelpful threads such as this one.
> 
> Nobody is asking you to maintain those packages, so I do not see why
> you 
> need to care at all about their existence.


Quote from the first email of this thread 

"any of these packages is needed ? or haven't replacement ?  " 



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