Quoting Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Old libraries are removed since only one version can exist in the same > > distro branch to the same time. If the library maintainer decided not to > > fork the source package but change the binary package name inside of > > existing three then he does not care about the users of his package. > > Such actions (in-place transition) should always be done in coordination > > with fellow developers as happened in the Perl transition, for example. > > Hence the need for policy to dictate to the maintainer not to allow the > package to be removed before all other packages have transitioned. It > usually doesn't take much more work as long as the maintainer is even > aware of what will happen.
It is not policy problem, it is a common sense one! -- Jérôme Marant
