Hi Manuel, In May 2015, you wrote:
> I plan to ask FTP-masters for removal from unstable in a few months, when > the new desktop is usable. But then in December 2016, you wrote: > I am not sure, is there a big compelling reason to remove it, like big > security bugs? It's dead upstream but it's still working fine without > maintainance, and building in all Linux-based architectures. I don't know if you find it compelling, but you have agreed that this package should not be in the next Debian release, which is why it's removed from testing; but by leaving it in unstable, it may still be included in releases of derivative distributions that pull from unstable. Ubuntu is an example of this - and for Ubuntu, we will manually remove the package - but other distributions may also be affected. You mention popcon as a reason for not removing the package. I guess there are a lot of users who have the package installed because it was a dependency of something else in the archive, and it's still installed because there was no transition which forced it off their systems. I wouldn't read into a high popcon count for a non-leaf package. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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