Hi Simon,

On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 4) We already have tooling to detect Zombie packages which are no longer
> needed, so we have a garbage collector running.

Yes, thank you for impletement this.

> 5) We can develop tooling to detect when Debian contains two projects vX
> and vY where Y>X from the same upstream, and file a Severity:important
> bug on the vX package asking that all consumers of the package should
> file upstream bug reports asking upstream to migrate to vY (or later).

Probably more issue if upstream uses both X and Y.

And here is an example that upstream is using more than only X and V:
  https://github.com/throttled/throttled/blob/v2.15.0/go.mod

Best regards,
-- 
-Andrew

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