Am 29.06.2011 19:37, schrieb Marcos Talau: > Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes:
>> why was halevt re-uploaded to unstable? I'm trying hard to get rid of hal for >> wheezy, so uploading new packages depending on the obsolete hal doesn't >> strike >> me as a good idea. > > The main reason: Some users like and use it. Popcon says +- 150, but > probably this value is high. > > We know that hal will not be part of wheezy. Why hal is in > testing/unstable? I think that halevt should be removed when hal is. It hasn't been removed yet to give package maintainers time to update their packages. See [1] [2]. Removing hal now would break all those packages. Michael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=halectomy;users=pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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