On 29/01/14 at 19:41 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > "Recursive" auto-removals temporarily suspended > =============================================== > > We have received complaints that package maintainers felt surprised > and inadequately warned, when their packages were removed due to a(n > indirect) dependency being removed. Therefore, we have decided to > temporarily suspend removals of packages that have reverse > dependencies until a "push-notification" is in place. > > As soon as this issue is resolved, we will re-enable recursive > automatic removals. > > This issue is currently tracked as #734396. > > Auto-removals now listed on the PTS > =================================== > > Thanks to the work of Ivo De Decker and Paul Wise, the PTS will now > display a warning for packages that are about to be auto-removed from > testing.
I still need to blog about this, but there are two other means that could qualify as "push-notification" for planned removals: * Debian Maintainer Dashboard (http://udd.debian.org/dmd/) lists them in the "TO-DO" section, and provides an RSS feed. * how-can-i-help lists them (for locally installed packages, but it's possible to provide a list of additional packages to monitor). Run it in cron if you want to get emails. (see the man page) Lucas -- 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/20140130082016.gb13...@xanadu.blop.info
