On 13/10/17 19:46, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Am 13.10.2017 um 18:33 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: >> Why are you removing the epoch? Don't you still need it? > > Your words have made me rethink and also let me re-read the policy part > 5.6.12. > > And yes, you are right as the version in the changelog is referring to > the version of the binary packages and these are all the same as before. > So yes, we still need the epoch here of course. > >>> The remove of the transitional packages is planned for the next >>> Thunderbird version 52.5.0. >> >> Are you removing the transitional packages now? Firefox hasn't dropped them >> yet. >> They are probably still needed for backports to previous releases, so it may >> be >> good to keep them around for a while longer (perhaps until buster is >> released). > > We want to remove the transitional packages for buster, not in stretch > or jessie (and wheezy too of course). > Do I've something overseen here? Currently I haven't anything in mind > that would really prevent us from removing the transitional packages in > buster.
Ok. I also think they can be removed from buster now. They will need to be kept for backports to older suites. Cheers, Emilio
