Re: Two thougts about testing

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:55:05AM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reading larger parts of the recent threads triggered by the 'Vancouver proposal' brought me to write this mail. Over the last two years testing became more and more a second (almost) stable

Re: Two thougts about testing

2005-03-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] Auto-removal of orphaned packages from unstable is also bad if it's an orphaned library that's still needed (which happens often enough). Auto-removal of orphaned (build-)dependency leaves sounds useful. This would also remove orphaned libraries after a while if the

Re: Two thougts about testing

2005-03-22 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Joerg! Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reading larger parts of the recent threads triggered by the 'Vancouver proposal' brought me to write this mail. Over the last two years testing became more and more a second (almost) stable distribution instead of being a preparation area for the

Re: Two thougts about testing

2005-03-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. The number of packages Debian never stopped growing, and there are packages which are unmaintained but they are still in the archive. Hey, if noone is willing to maintain a package, wait a grace period (30 days) and remove it from