Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[Aurelien Bompard]

Hi all,

I have a question about distribution upgrade : how should we deal with
unmaintained packages which don't work in the new distribution ? Let's say
we have included a program in Extras (or main) and the project stops for
some reason. At some point in the future, the program will stop working
(API change, glibc upgrade, ...). How should we deal with such a package
(except not including it in the first place of course ;) ) ?
We could tell Anaconda to remove it (well I don't know much about Anaconda,
but I suppose it is possible), but what about online upgrades using yum or
apt ?

Thanks for your explanations

Aurélien
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