How long should transitional packages be kept?

[Russ Allbery]

Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> writes:

> I seem to recall from somewhere that transitional packages should be
> kept for two stable releases, but I might have made this up myself. Can
> we remove the transitional packages in svn or should we keep them around
> for lenny? Or something else?

Officially, Debian does not support skipping a version on upgrades.  To
upgrade from sarge to lenny, we require that users first go through etch.
Therefore, transition packages designed to ease upgrades from sarge that
released with etch can be removed in lenny.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>