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Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC.
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Olaf Till |
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Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC. |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:05:43 +0100 |
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> Since the first sentence already states that external packages remain under
> the control of their original dev/maintainer, I propose to remove the above
> sentence
Ok with me.
> and simply write:
>
> *"**If an external package X is removed from Octave Forge**, previous
> releases of the package will remain available on Octave Forge."
> *
But what has the latter sentence to do with the original issue? A
guaranty that previous releases will always be available? I think we
are not in a position to give such a guaranty, since we are only a
group of programmers, dependent on external infrastructure. And even
the persons in our group may change. We can't give many guarantees...
Can't we just remove the sentence without replacement?
Olaf
> and not discuss explicitly what happens next (scenarios A/B above, or any
> other variant).
>
> @++
> Julien
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- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., (continued)
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/08
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/08
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Olaf Till, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC.,
Olaf Till <=
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Olaf Till, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09