From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:51:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204115113.vhg5pbmc5byfpjmj@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204100318.208254da@alma-ubu>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:
> 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?
+1.
It would also be nice to add an OBSOLETE/DEPRECATE tag or comment
which can be removed when a package works again. This could be made
visible as metadata. Maybe even link it with debbugs.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-04 11:16 Policy to remove obsolete packages Björn Höfling
2019-02-04 11:51 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
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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