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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Three of my library packages are going to be becoming obsolete in the >> medium-term future. >> >> libapr0 and libaprutil0 and their development packages apr and apr-util >> are already used only by [prev] software. >> >> libneon24 is used solely by [curr] cadaver, and [prev] subversion. >> >> I'm soliciting opinions on how long library packages should remain after >> they no longer are required by any other software in the distro. > > I don't think any opinions are required. We have a procedure for this. > The package move into the _obsolete category/_obsolete directory, and the > latest package becomes an empty .tar.bz2 file. > > I don't see any reason to remove packages from the _obsolete category > once they are put there. Sorry, I could have been clearer. The issue is that these are all library packages, which people could conceivably have self-compiled stuff depending upon. I'd like some opinions on how long a real (not empty .tar) version of a library should persist, after nothing in the distribution requires it any more. Max.
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