Wolf Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> For some time now, I have been thinking about the problem of packages
>> which are removed from the archive at some point, without an (enforced)
>> transition to a new package name. Users of such packages keep them
>> around, usually never noticing the fact that no security (or other)
>> support is available anymore.
> Maybe it should be mandatory to always have a transition package for
> packages which are being removed from the archives? For example, when
> package X_0.1 is to be removed from the archive, there has to be a
> transition to a package X-obsoleted_0.1 (which is in fact the same as
> X_0.1).

That would force us to keep the packages in the next release.

Marc
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