-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 16:31, Charles Plessy wrote: > Our packages are free software, so imperfect ones removed from the > archive can be redistributed in third-party apt repository if there is a > niche for this. This way, the decisions of removal can be proven wrong > by user-driven facts.
All agreed for packages that are so unmaintained that it is better to drop them for good. The situation is different (and maybe more difficult [1]) if the package is *wanted* in lenny, but just removed by the release managers, despite the fact that the release managers want them back in after a short period of time. From: "Daniel R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This weekend (1-June-2008) several important gnome metapackages have been > removed from Debian Lenny repositories: > > gnome-core > gnome-desktop-environment > gnome-cups-manager > update-manager > update-notifier > libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a Johannes [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIRrEUC1NzPRl9qEURAjhmAJ93OUKZSrXRoK9RUo7zgj6d/OarcACfc6o6 0Ubi0aoBF7TRy0BLJTcDxrQ= =S8zw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
