On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Lucas Nussbaum<lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> Removal of orphaned packages > ============================ > The audience clearly want orphaned packages to be removed. I'm not quite > sure it's reasonable to do that. However, clearly, there's no opposition > to this idea. When snapshots.debian.org will be fully fonctional, a web > interface will allow users to fetch and install removed packages. I forgot to mention it during the discussion, but s.d.o isn't an optimal solution due to library ABI bumps and so on. I think a proper solution is something like unsupported.debian.net or debian-unsupported.org, documented here (but not yet worked on): http://wiki.debian.org/MergeDerivedDistributions#DebianUnsupported This is similar to the below idea: > Move of orphaned packages to another place > ========================================== > Another possible solution would be to move orphaned packages to another > section/archive area (i.e something sitting next to unstable or > experimental), or just to experimental. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
