old_testing_critpath notifications

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 13:20 +0100, François Cami wrote:

> Of course, we could look at things differently: for a package to be
> marked critpath, it should have users or be a dependency of some other
> package with users.

This is pretty inevitably implicit in the current definition of critpath
- packages that are necessary to boot the system and use it. :) Okay,
there's slightly unexpected cases like openldap, which isn't necessary
for most people to login and use their systems but gets brought in
because it's a dependency of various auth mechanisms which *optionally
support* LDAP, but even that is obviously used by >0 people.

> And packages with enough known users should always land in critpath,
> otherwise we might break systems users depend on.

That doesn't fit in with the current function-based definition, so your
proposal is to change that?

> At this point, non-critpath packages may be left to their maintainers' wishes.

maybe we could have a three-tier system - critpath, commonly used,
other. but we don't really have any very reliable methods for
determining use of packages yet.
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