[arch-general] Out dated packages in extra - What to do ?

[Mathieu Clabaut]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:04:24PM +0200, Mathieu Clabaut wrote:
> [...]
> > Anyway, in the long term, it would be very nice to be able to publish
> > somewhere the reason for some package being out dated.... It may allow
> > anonymous user  to provide some help.
>
> I'm thinking the bug tracker would be a decent place to record reasons
> that a package is out dated. Then people could easily bump the ticket
> with new comments and suggestions, and everyone watching the bug would
> receive notifications.
>
> Looks good to me, but for any reason, it is explicitly out of the BTS
policy now, which states that it should not be use to report out dated
packages...
Does Anybody know the rationale for this policy ?

-mathieu
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