Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Björn Höfling <address@hidden> skribis:

> In the FOSDEM-talk by Frederic Crozat (SuSE) about Distributions, he
> mentioned their approach which I find good to adapt:
>
>
> If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it
> from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing
> list, maybe someone will care about it then. If there is no response
> within 2 weeks, we really remove it.
>
> What do you think?

I believe a policy along these lines would make sense.

(Note that, IIUC, in openSuSE a package can be broken and yet remain
installable by users, because the last binary that was produced is still
around.)

Ludo’.