On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Three of my library packages are going to be becoming obsolete in the >medium-term future. > >libapr0 and libaprutil0 and their development packages apr and apr-util >are already used only by [prev] software. > >libneon24 is used solely by [curr] cadaver, and [prev] subversion. > >I'm soliciting opinions on how long library packages should remain after >they no longer are required by any other software in the distro.
I don't think any opinions are required. We have a procedure for this. The package move into the _obsolete category/_obsolete directory, and the latest package becomes an empty .tar.bz2 file. I don't see any reason to remove packages from the _obsolete category once they are put there. cgf
