On Apr 11, 2005 6:25 AM, Gavin Henry <ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com> wrote:
Dear all,
This might be a dumb question, but should all the released versions of
packages be in Extras?
i.e. when the latest update is out, should the previous version be removed
from the download server?
Keeping older versions available for a period time is a "good thing"
{tm}, since there is no "release" tree to fall back to in case there
is a packaging problem or other bug. A pure rolling release, with no
publicly available fallback will cause significant problems when
packaging errors or made. The Core updates do this sort of thing
already, when a new update is released, older updates hang around for
a period of time before being purged.
-jef