On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > Hello Debian mainainers, > > In accordance with the Etch wishlist^wTODOList[1],
Do not confuse a personal wishlist with a real todo list. > we need to remove > from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy packages, as they are also woody-to-etch dummy packages. > This is why Clément Stenac and I have tried to establish a list of the > packages to be removed[2]. This[3] page also explains how the list was > built. > > If one of your packages is listed here[2], please remove it from your > control file and ask ftp-masters for its removal from the archive by > filing a bug on ftp.debian.org (of course, we might have made some > mistakes computing this list, please contact us > on <dummy at diwi dot org> should you have any question/remark.) > > In a few weeks, we'll start filing RC bugs against the remaining > packages. RC bug? What the heck are you talking about? You can argue that we don't have a clear and defined policy about how long "should" a dummy package be kept in the archives, but it is definitely *not* in policy that dummy packages *have* to be removed after one release. Please do not make "policy" by submitting bugs.
