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?