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Re: Removing the attic package
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Removing the attic package |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:34:39 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> 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
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