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From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Policy to remove obsolete packages
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:16:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204100318.208254da@alma-ubu> (raw)

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Hi Guix,

on Guix-Days we had no more time in the QA track to talk about obsolete
packages.

In the FOSDEM-talk by Frederic Crozat (SuSE) about Distributions, he
mentioned their approach which I find good to adapt:


If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it
from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing
list, maybe someone will care about it then. If there is no response
within 2 weeks, we really remove it.

What do you think?

Björn


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             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-04 11:16 Björn Höfling [this message]
2019-02-04 11:51 ` Policy to remove obsolete packages Pjotr Prins
2019-02-04 18:06 ` Andreas Enge
2019-02-04 22:18   ` Leo Famulari
2019-02-04 23:47     ` zimoun
2019-02-05 10:24       ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-07 12:40         ` zimoun
2019-02-08  8:47           ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-04 22:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-05 10:13   ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-05 21:31     ` ng0
2019-02-05 22:47       ` swedebugia
2019-02-05 23:52         ` ng0
2019-02-06 22:32         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-07 12:42           ` swedebugia

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