Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> The maintainer is unwilling to retire them.
>
> I think we should ask FESCo to force them to be retired. It's confusing
> to have ancient versions of the packages in the distro, and they will
> stick around forever if not.
I do not see why we would want to force removing working, maintained
packages from the distribution. That is a major disservice to users and
basically a "screw you" to the maintainer. Whom does that help?
GLib 1 and GTK+ 1 are compatibility libraries. It is their whole purpose to
"stick around forever", at least as long as somebody is willing to maintain
them. They are needed to keep legacy applications working.
If FESCo wants to get involved at all (I do not really see any need for them
to intervene in the first place), I ask FESCo to affirm that a compatibility
library can remain in the distribution as long as it is maintained and to
ask people to refrain from posting unhelpful threads such as this one.
Nobody is asking you to maintain those packages, so I do not see why you
need to care at all about their existence.
Kevin Kofler
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