On 11/07/2011 12:02 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
That's not such a big problem per se. The real issue is when some packages don't move up to 7.2.1 but we want to. In the past I've sent out emails to upstream maintainers to encourage them to update. So far that has worked fairly well, but I don't think that will be the case always. Then we're faced with the option of either keeping everything thing back, update the package ourselves, or drop the package completely. Neither option is very good.
Such packages should be dropped by default. That is the only option since we do not have resources to overtake maintenance of all the packages as original maintainers will go unresponsive. There may be somebody in arch-haskell who needs the packages and he/she may want to overtake their maintenance. So it would be a good idea to post to arch-haskell which packages are going to be dropped if a new maintainer is not found in arch-haskell. Peter.