Re: [ELPA] Package cleanup

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> That suggests they might have bugs and need maintenance, but it does
> not imply they are useless or obsolete.  They might be obsolete, or
> not.

Indeed.  There are some very useful packages that aren't maintained
anymore (i.e. yasnippet, which hasn't seen changes since 2 years, and
has no sign of that changing any time soon.)

>   > I have found some packages that doesn't even work or rely on some
>   > features that were obsoleted or removed.

I would rather we take a different approach: don't change anything that
will break packages on ELPA.