From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:52:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87munbkvy8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190204100318.208254da@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqn8p-0005IL-VW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:55:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqn6k-0000Ts-IG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:52:56 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:44906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqn6i-0000S4-Qx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:52:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20190204100318.208254da@alma-ubu> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Bj=C3=B6rn?= =?utf-8?Q?_H=C3=B6fling=22's?= message of "Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:16:12 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_H=C3=B6fling?= Cc: guix-devel Hi! Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling skribis: > 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? I believe a policy along these lines would make sense. (Note that, IIUC, in openSuSE a package can be broken and yet remain installable by users, because the last binary that was produced is still around.) Ludo=E2=80=99.