Intent to orphan kiax package

[Kilian Krause]

Mark,

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:08:21PM +0100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, George Danchev wrote:
> > What do you guys think wrt orphaning kiax package ?
> 
> George,
> 
> I'm not sure we want to orphan kiax, as it has been released with etch and someone needs
> to pick up the pieces when it breaks and requires security patches.
> 
> Given that it has been released with etch we are bound to provide some level of support.
> 
> We could I suppose, in theory, request removal from lenny (testing) and sid (unstable) 
> only provide support via stable-proposed-updates.

I guess this should read stable-security, right? We don't want to
featurewise poke with kphone and kiax, just close security bugs if
neccessary or have I missed something?


> We are also in a similar position with kphone, which hasn't seen any/much upstream
> action, there is kphone-si, but that hasn't moved very far forward either.
> 
> I do agree with your sentiments though, if upstream don't want to continue, then we are 
> making a rod for our backs by trying to support.
> 
> So in summary, I'm not happy to orphan as we have released with a stable release and thus
> are bound to provide some level of support.  I would be happy to remove from testing
> / unstable as the upstream have gone quiet..

Removal from testing/unstable is probably the only way to go. Thus
thumbs up from me for proceeding.

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian
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