On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:22:42PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:04:21PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 06:33:26PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > I think in this case it’s okay because of this NEWS entry: > > > > > > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/matrix-synapse/0.99.2-6/debian/NEWS/ > > > > > I'm not sure how that makes it any better? NEWS is shown on upgrade at > > > best, so anyone installing this on buster won't see it. > > > > True; I haven’t thought about people who never had synapse installed > > before. In any case, I think anyone installing this on buster does > > follow the news about Matrix and probably tried to figure out how to > > upgrade. > > Notifying users about an EOL package is handled by debian-security-support, > simply file a bug against it and the next time it lands in stable, people > will be notified who have it installed. > > I'm all in favour of removing it by 10.4 or 10.5, depending on whether > the timing still allows for 10.4.
Let's remove it for the upcoming 10.5 update, then? Cheers, Moritz