On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 09:27:25PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'm doing an small mass bug filing against obsolete transitional packages > which are at least marked "dummy transitional" since the jessie release, > though many of them existed already in wheezy. I think it's rather undoubtful > those are normal bugs we want to get rid off.
Thanks for raising this. > I'm currently undecided whether I think it's useful to file wishlist bugs > against transitional dummy packages which only are that since stretch. What > do > you think? I probably wouldn't bother. Although the project doesn't formally support skip-upgrades, a fair few maintainers probably do so informally. > Probably it's more useful to file wishlist bugs against packages > depending on those… or should those be normal severity? Normal sounds reasonable to me. > Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> > openssh (U) There are some subtleties. Filed as https://bugs.debian.org/878626. > parted (U) This is blocked on reverse-dependencies. I've filed: https://bugs.debian.org/878626 https://bugs.debian.org/878627 ... and ideally we'd also fix: https://bugs.debian.org/878630 https://bugs.debian.org/878628 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
