[answerinng only the off-topic parts, for clarification from the release team:]
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:35:48PM +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote: >--- Andy Korvemaker wrote: > >>I was checking whether a new version of Abiword was > >>available in > >>Unstable and decided to see what was holding the > >>current Unstable > >>version from moving into Testing (at > >>http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/abiword.html). > >> > >>Clicking on the "Check why" link for why it's not > >>there, it looks like > >>Abiword is scheduled for removal from Sid. See > >http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=abiword > >>I'm not a Debian developer at all, so I'm not sure > >>if this is a "common" > >>occurence. But as a (relatively inexperienced) user > >>it sounds like > >>Abiword is being pulled for some reason. (I don't > >>know how to find out > >>what that reason is.) You can find this information at <http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints>. The reason for the removal request was not 258918, which is far too recent to have shown up on the release team's radar yet as a removal issue, but 241279, affecting a library that abiword depends on. An alternative resolution for 241279 has since been found that doesn't involve ripping out abiword and half the GNOME metapackages depending on it, so abiword is no longer in danger of removal. Please feel free to forward this information to Andy, as I don't appear to have his email address. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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