Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 17:13 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : > 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.
Let me step in again as one of the maintainers for all these packages: > > This weekend (1-June-2008) several important gnome metapackages have been > > removed from Debian Lenny repositories: > > > > gnome-core > > gnome-desktop-environment These were a mistake fixed on the next britney run. Mistakes happen, and in this case there has been no consequences. > > gnome-cups-manager > > libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a I personally asked the release team to remove these packages, which are deprecated and unmaintained, both upstream and in Debian. > > update-manager > > update-notifier Update-manager *does* have an unfixed RC bug, and the GNOME team is too busy currently to fix it, so it is obvious that we can not afford under the current conditions to ship it in lenny. If you really want to see update-* in lenny, you are more than welcome to give a hand to fix them, to maintain them in the long term, or to help us enough on other packages so that we can deal with them. If you are only here to rant, please shut up. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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