Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

[Pjotr Prins]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> on Guix-Days we had no more time in the QA track to talk about obsolete
> packages.
> 
> In the FOSDEM-talk by Frederic Crozat (SuSE) about Distributions, he
> mentioned their approach which I find good to adapt:
> 
> 
> If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it
> from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing
> list, maybe someone will care about it then. If there is no response
> within 2 weeks, we really remove it.
> 
> What do you think?

+1.

It would also be nice to add an OBSOLETE/DEPRECATE tag or comment
which can be removed when a package works again. This could be made
visible as metadata. Maybe even link it with debbugs.

Pj.