Re: Removing the attic package

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

>> Do we have any guidelines about "retiring" packages?
>
> Not yet!
>
> Of course there’s a fine line here: we cannot systematically retire
> packages “just” because they have bugs (all of them do ;-)).  So we have
> to be cautious.  In this case, it can be considered a serious bug in the
> package’s core functionality, *and* there’s a fix provided by a fork, so
> I see no obstacle in removing it.

This seems reasonable.

~~ Ricardo