Re: Proposed package removals after 2016Q4

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Dec 19,  4:25pm, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 09:19:05AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
} > > [...]
} > > sysutils/xenkernel41
} > > sysutils/xenkernel45
} > > sysutils/xentools41
} > > sysutils/xentools45
} > 
} > I would like to see removal proposals explain why the packages should be
} > removeed, how this serves the balanced interest of users and maintainers
} > (including that maintainers are choosign to stop, which matters), and
} > what the effect would be on people.  This is complicated enough that
} > each group probably deserves a separate thread.
} 
} for Xen, the reason is: maintenance cost.

     I'd like to point out that you're not the only person doing
maintenance on the Xen packages.  I'm quite sure I've seen spz do
security updates.  I imported at least two versions into pkgsrc.
Importing and maintaining the Xen packages is a group effort of
the heavy Xen users.  Thus no one person should be able to make
Xen packages go away for the simple reason of "maintenance cost".

}-- End of excerpt from Manuel Bouyer