On 11/11/2013 06:51, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:47:30 +0100
Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
Silent removals do us no good.
...
1) dev-only seems to be the main cause of lost announcements, which
isn't that worry some as most of us still receive them but it would
be nice for them to be in dev-announce as well;
This is actually the reason I subscribed to -dev in the first place. I
started noticing that some packages I needed/used/used to use/etc. were
being removed and I wanted to find out why. At first, I subscribed to
-announce and -dev-announce, but I found that I still wasn't being notified.
I know overlays aren't officially supported, but the courtesy of
announcing package removals, especially libraries, would be much
appreciated. There have been times that a library I use for an internal
project, for example, was removed without notice, forcing me to look at
the CVS attic to find out why. More often than not, though, the commit
message is simply "removed" or "clean up," which is just as unhelpful.
While I have no problem copying stuff back out of the attic into a local
overlay, it would be nice to prepare for that before something breaks.
Thank you,
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♫Dustin
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