On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:06:27PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Am 2003-10-02 12:38 +0200 schrieb Peter Makholm: > > I don't know the reason for some packages being marked [REMOVE] but it > > seems to me that it is not just an 'This package is not essential for > > a releas an useful distribution'. > > OTOH, php4 is marked for removal. I assume that I'm not the only one > that would classify it as important. In addition, it is odd that there > are still packages depending on php4 which are not marked for removal. > > I did not dig into the reasons why php4 should be removed (BTS says > "see -release", but that doesn't tell me anything),
Expand that to "see the archives of the debian-release mailing list" and you'll find useful information. (It was a temporary attempt at pulling php4 out of testing to unblock other stuff, which is due to be reverted.) > so I don't object against it loudly. Good; in general you probably shouldn't interpret removals from testing as policy decisions at this point, although of course if there's something broken in a package being removed from testing then fixing it is always a good thing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
