Excerpts from Jeremiah Dodds's message of 2010-10-06 08:53:33 -0400: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM, David Campbell <[email protected]>wrote: > > > The old packages serve as a reference for anyone wanting to > > adopt. If you delete them, people will have to start over from > > scratch. > > Perhaps a simple searchable-by-name archive of old packages would suffice? > Or even just a publicly readable ftp server? It would clear the cruft out, > and still allow people to access an old package if they want to renew it or > need it for whatever reason.
What matters is not how old the package is, but whether it works or not. There has already been a feature request for the ability to flag packages as broken: FS#18829. -- David Campbell
