On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
On Tue November 25 2008, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Although I agree with Patrice, it seems more natural to orphan it and
> let Darwin's law do its job...
But who will after which timeframe retire the package? The current best
practices are to retire packages that are considered not to be useful anymore
to make this obvious for other interested maintainers. E.g. then the
package's devel CVS directory will contain a dead.package file that explains
why it is not useful anymore. If a package is only orphaned, then this means,
that there is currently nobody available that want's to maintain the package,
but the package would still be useful.
A package should only be retired if it is orphaned. For example, in that
case, if nobody answers within a reasonable time frame (2 weeks?), it could
be retired in addition to being orphaned, and obsoleted by nautilus.
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Pat