Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:46:31 Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Normally old versions are not kept around as already said if you read
>> the thread.
> 
> "normal" is not the same thing as "always".  unless you're the maintainer, you 
> have no idea whether old versions are kept there on purpose.  ive had people 
> delete older versions of packages on me simply because they made this invalid 
> assumption without talking to the maintainer.  the rest of the thread is 
> irrelevant as this point was not made.
> 

Yes I have no idea. That's why I asked on gentoo-dev-announce for
maintainers to tell me if they are kept on purpose so the point was made
already at the very start.

Regards,
Petteri