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

Christian Babeux christian.babeux at 0x80.ca
Fri Jun 20 10:27:36 EDT 2008


Loui 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.
>
>
>   
Normally the bug tracker should be used for bugs tracking. An outdated 
package is not a "bug".
But, we still need a way to communicate why a certain package is outdated.




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