Re: removing xchat
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Well we could also revert back to my initial plan to just remove it and
> add some notes to the release notes. But that leaves quite some people with
> a dead package around. Is that more userfriendly than a forced migration with
> a very manual migration path? I also don't find the idea very appealing to
> carry around dead softare when we have an actively maintained alternative
> available.
Quite often we remove packages from Debian without leaving any
migration path at all, so this is far from the least userfriendly
removal in Debian history. Lack of migration path sucks but isn't
relevant from a removal perspective.
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bye,
pabs
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