Re: [ELPA] Package cleanup

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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Thanks for investigating the situation with unmaintained packages.
What you've found will help us think about what to do.

  > Just a question. Did you finally agreed about the package
  > obsoletion/removal procedure for ELPA?

I'd like to see a proposal.

  > It seems there are some packages there which haven't received any update
  > in a very long time (>5 years).

That suggests they might have bugs and need maintenance,
but it does not imply they are useless or obsolete.
They might be obsolete, or not.

There are many questions we'd want to check
to decide what to do with each package.

  > I have found some packages that doesn't even work or rely on some
  > features that were obsoleted or removed.

In those cases, we clearly don't want to leave the package there
in its current form.  But what change should we make?

We could delete it.  We could look for people to update it.
Either one might be better, depending on more details.


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