From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing the attic package
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:34:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjlgz6hhi8.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1kirc4r.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Do we have any guidelines about "retiring" packages?
>
> Not yet!
>
> Of course there’s a fine line here: we cannot systematically retire
> packages “just” because they have bugs (all of them do ;-)). So we have
> to be cautious. In this case, it can be considered a serious bug in the
> package’s core functionality, *and* there’s a fix provided by a fork, so
> I see no obstacle in removing it.
This seems reasonable.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 2:12 Removing the attic package Leo Famulari
2016-09-04 13:10 ` ng0
2016-09-04 18:44 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-05 8:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-05 8:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-09-05 9:29 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-05 10:05 ` ng0
2016-09-05 10:20 ` ng0
2016-09-06 21:36 ` Superseded packages Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-10 17:25 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 13:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-11 15:19 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 20:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-20 21:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-24 2:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-25 16:42 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-26 9:44 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-27 21:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-28 8:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-28 17:58 ` Leo Famulari
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