On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:07:18AM +0100, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:49:50AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
We only support the latest packages in the repos, so if you have issues with old versions of packages or packages from unsupported sources, then it is up to _you_ to fix them.
I don't have issues with them, except that they get deleted when they shouldn't be.
What happens now is that if I have a package that depends on a library that has been updated in the repos, you take the liberty to disable that package when by chance I installl something completely unrelated that just happens to use the same library in a new version.
I don't ask you to 'support' my old package. Just to leave it alone. And that is *not* in conflict with your desire to use the a new library in the all repo packages. It is completely unrelated to maintaining a repo.
It seems you don't get the point. Arch provides a way to deal with such a situation through the AUR. And, actually, you ask to support your old package. I guess you'll find a package out there which still depends on - let´s say - libpng02. I think it is pretty impossible for a rolling distro to just leave it alone (from distro-side - on user-side you can do what you like). --