showhyphens gone?

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:30 PM Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> so 27. 8. 2022 v 17:06 odesílatel Frank Mittelbach
> <frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org> napsal:
> >
> > Am 27.08.22 um 15:46 schrieb Per Starbäck:
> > > Manfred Lotz <manfred at dante.de> writes:
> > >
> > >> The showhyphens author Patrick Gundlach decided in June that
> showhyphens should
> > >> be moved to obsolete in CTAN. If a package gets moved to obsolete/
> tree then it
> > >> will be removed from texlive.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the explanation! Is that really a good policy, though? To me
> > > it seems obviously good if a Texlive release is rather  stable, and it
> > > would be better if obsoletion meant that the package isn't included in
> the
> > > *next release* of Texlive.
> > >
> >
> > I think this is worth contemplating. It would help with some nasty
> > surprises (and even though one could still reinstall from CTAN) it seems
> > a good policy that TL XX represents the software corpus that is on the
> > TL XX DVD + bug fixes and additions that happened during the year XX but
> > not suddenly dropping packages while XX is the current version.
> >
> I agree. Declaring a package obsolete is not the same as request of
> removal.
>

Obsolete packages should not be removed until at least a few months when
the
obsolete package and a replacement are both available.  There should be
some visible warning that an installed package has been obsoleted.   Maybe
(after the overlap period) a dummy replacement package could provide a
short note:
"the X package is obsolete. The recommended replacement is Y." with
some notes on the changes required to use Y in a document that was using X.

-- 
George N. White III
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