Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > Try . Most of my answers > > above came from there. > > Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your > tim

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > > > moonlight 0.5.3-6 > > > > No idea what this was. > > Description: create and render 3D scenes Looks like they ran into some problems. The original site (http://www.moon

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > (... reasons for removing a series of packages ...) > Try . Most of my answers > above came from there. Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your time looking for each

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:19:06AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > gnotepad+-help 1.2.0-3.1 Purged by the release manager due to bugs, see #137928. > kfilereplace 0.6.1-8 It had been orphaned for ages so it was removed, see #116554. > libjsw1.2 1:1.2.0-1.2 Removed because its source package didn'

Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-04 Thread Carlos Sousa
After running a few scripts of my own, I've discovered quite a few packages I have installed that are now completely absent from all Debian distributions. Further processing of the Packages files showed that some of the vanished packages were from unstable and got replaced by newer versions, and o