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Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC.
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Olaf Till |
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Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC. |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 20:35:22 +0100 |
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 08:01:18PM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 09/03/2017 à 19:05, Olaf Till a écrit :
> >On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> >>Since the first sentence already states that external packages remain under
> >>the control of their original dev/maintainer, I propose to remove the above
> >>sentence
> >Ok with me.
> >
> >>and simply write:
> >>
> >>*"**If an external package X is removed from Octave Forge**, previous
> >>releases of the package will remain available on Octave Forge."
> >>*
> >But what has the latter sentence to do with the original issue? A
> >guaranty that previous releases will always be available? I think we
> >are not in a position to give such a guaranty, since we are only a
> >group of programmers, dependent on external infrastructure. And even
> >the persons in our group may change. We can't give many guarantees...
> >
> >Can't we just remove the sentence without replacement?
>
>
> Yes we can (as far as I am concerned).
Ok. (Sigh of relief... that issue with avoiding giving guarantees
should have occured to me earlier.) Pushed a version with (hopefully)
all the changes discussed so far online.
Olaf
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- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., (continued)
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Olaf Till, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Olaf Till, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Julien Bect, 2017/03/09
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC.,
Olaf Till <=
- Re: Octave Forge: Package groups and properties defined, RFC., Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2017/03/09