deleting AppDB deleted

[Richard S]

Hi

Im one of the maintainers of the iTunes 6.x (was)

On Saturday I received this email

'
Subject: 	[AppDB] Version '6.x' of 'iTunes' deleted
Date: 	Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:15:45 -0600 (18:15 GMT)

Version '6.x' of 'iTunes' deleted
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The action was performed by Wesley Hamel
Reasons given
Cleanup
'

Is it standard practice to remove all old versions of a program except for the
most recent?

IF this is true, WHY?

Rich

[Bryan Haskins]

It really depends on the case, if a program is entirely superseded by
another version, ie you can't use the old version at all anymore, totally.
If it's still entirely possible to use an older version, and people have a
reason too, I would personally not delete it. However it really is up to the
management of the maintainers, and how they want to handle things.

On Dec 10, 2007 4:53 AM, Richard S  wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im one of the maintainers of the iTunes 6.x (was)
>
> On Saturday I received this email
>
> '
> Subject:        [AppDB] Version '6.x' of 'iTunes' deleted
> Date:   Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:15:45 -0600 (18:15 GMT)
> Version '6.x' of 'iTunes' deleted
>
> The action was performed by Wesley Hamel
> Reasons given
> Cleanup
> '
>
> Is it standard practice to remove all old versions of a program except for
> the
> most recent?
>
> IF this is true, WHY?
>
> Rich

[Juan Lang]

> Is it standard practice to remove all old versions of a program except for the
> most recent?

Not standard practice, and this shouldn't have been done (since few of
the 7.x versions of iTunes work with Wine.)
--Juan

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

On Monday 10 December 2007 22:16:10 Juan Lang wrote:
> > Is it standard practice to remove all old versions of a program except
> > for the most recent?
>
> Not standard practice, and this shouldn't have been done (since few of
> the 7.x versions of iTunes work with Wine.)
> --Juan

That's correct.  If a version is not usable anymore (because it connects to a 
server etc.) it can be made obsolete so votes will be moved to a usable one.

We are in the process of adding an un-delete system to the AppDB so issues 
like the recent ones can be fixed.

Alexander N. Sørnes