I decided against removing the following packages because of unwelcome consequences. This list does not include packages that were not removed because they were fixed.
Package: emacs19 (debian/main). Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 57636 gnus under emacs19 opens files in /tmp insecurely [Also takes out w3-el-e19, vm, emacs19-el, emacs-czech] Removing w3-el-e19 means removing all of w3-el, because it's a multi-binary package. That's a bit extreme, and I'd rather give Joey a bit more time to fix emacs19. Package: pdl (debian/main). Maintainer: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Arch-specific, Raul doesn't know how to fix] 55268 [Strategy: use older version on alpha] PDL fails to compile on alpha [I may just remove the alpha package for this one] gimp1.1-perl depends on pdl, and gimp1.1-perl is part of gimp1.1. So removing this package means removing all of gimp1.1 and everything that depends on it. That's a bit too much. Package: tclx76 (debian/main). Maintainer: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 56541 tclx76: cannot install [Also takes out tclx76-dev, emacspeak? and emacspeak-ss?] emacspeak depends on an impressive array of tclx packages, but tclx76 seems to be the last one we have. (I found no trace of tclx80). The situation was a bit too complex for me to investigate today. Richard Braakman P.S. I now live and work in Helsinki, but I don't have an internet connection at home yet (or, in fact, anything other than a bed). (IKEA, it's still in a box that looks far too small for its supposed contents). This is the reason for my recent slowness.
