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[Philip Brown]

Sorry for delay in replying...



On 11/11/10, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Am 11.11.2010 um 21:48 schrieb Philip Brown:
> ...
>> I'm not okay with leaving in these transition packages indefinately.
>> They need to have a finite lifetime. See below.
>
> Ok. 6 month.
>
>> Additionally, we need specific tracking of which of our applications
>> need to have their dependancies changed. Having a specific retirement
>> date on the empty packages helps with that too.
>
> After release I file bugs against all dependent packages as I
> always do on renames :-P

I think we need to identify dependancies ahead of time (BEFORE
release!), so we can consider if there will be any "problem upgrades".
Right now, I think that neither of us has a good view of all packages
affected, and that's a bad situation to be in, before making
widespread changes.