6 Oct
2010
6 Oct
'10
11:53 p.m.
Excerpts from Jeremiah Dodds's message of 2010-10-06 08:53:33 -0400:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM, David Campbell <davekong@archlinux.us>wrote:
The old packages serve as a reference for anyone wanting to adopt. If you delete them, people will have to start over from scratch.
Perhaps a simple searchable-by-name archive of old packages would suffice? Or even just a publicly readable ftp server? It would clear the cruft out, and still allow people to access an old package if they want to renew it or need it for whatever reason.
What matters is not how old the package is, but whether it works or not. There has already been a feature request for the ability to flag packages as broken: FS#18829. -- David Campbell