On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:58:03AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > rc-alert has existed for quite some time and it gets the alert in > *ahead* of package removal. It alerts users to the real problem - the > RC BUG!
Did you try to run rc-alert recently ? The output is totally overwhelming for something that is to run on several computers and several times by month. Most of the bugs are reported against important packages that cannot be removed anyway. This do not give good clue about packages that could be NMUed with positive effect. The removal list is much more useful in this regard, if only because once a package is removed, the maintainer can hardly complain about a NMU. > The people with the package installed are those most interested in > "restoring" the package? Honestly? By restoring, I assume you simply > mean "ignore the RC issue - seeing as nobody seems to care to fix it - > and give me a broken package so that I don't have to do anything." I am not sure how you justify your assumption. At least, my assumption is that people using a package are more interested by its availabilty that people that do not use it. > (A huge thank you to Niels for doing this task - he really does not > deserve to be taking all the flak as the messenger.) If you refer to my email, then you completly missed its purpose (to encourage Niels to continue to post the list of removal to this list). Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131008193657.ga29...@master.debian.org
