I've been suggesting removals, because at the moment, all the major hintable logjams for packages entering have been cleared. (Which is quite cool.) (You can tell this by noticing that most of the packages at the top of http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/toplist.html are there because they have actual RC bugs.)
So, on to removing packages which simply shouldn't release with sarge. First, the new ones. -- These were found by analyzing the packages which were uninstallable in testing on i386. I skipped those which were due to out-of-date binaries, and those involved in the nagios/netsaint and lm-sensors messes; although I might look at those later, at the moment they appear to be 'in progress'. I also skipped those where some binaries were installable and others weren't, on the grounds that that would do more harm than good. remove libmail-cclient-perl/1.5-2 Unsatisfiable (depends on long-ago-removed package). Also, out of date. remove python-pcgi/1.999a5-3 Uninstallable (depends on removed package). remove showimg/0.7-3 Uninstallable (depends on kde 2 libs) -- The following were found by trawling the RC bug list starting with packages beginning with 'l'. I still skipped bugs reported in February (there are a lot of them!) By the way, there's a messy issue with gtkgl2 -- it appears to be breaking everything linked with it. See 227477. remove pgeasy/1:3.0.1-2 No copyright. Now, this is probably going to be cleared up eventually, but you don't want to release sarge with it in this state. remove gnome-db2/0.12.1-2 "Constantly crashes" for one submitter (#228893); "doesn't do anything" for another (#222960); nasty coding error likely to kill all 64-bit arches (#226524); plus more bugs. No maintainer reply to any of them for long periods. Only downside is that gnome-office depends on it. But it doesn't work, so.... remove netsaint-nrpe/1.2.4-4 Already supposed to be removed. Also being removed from unstable. Apparently stalled because it's non-US, perhaps? remove sleuthkit/1.61-4 #205313 (FTBFS). Also, there's been a newer release for a long time (#221713), plus #196834 (improper directory search locations) and other bugs. The maintainer hasn't replied to any of the bug trails, and may be MIA. remove xfdeskmenu4/4.0.0+cvs.20021222-2 #229943, plus, without xfce in sarge, what's the point? -- And these are from researching the old removal suggestions, and existing non-functioning removals: remove gnopernicus/0.7.1-1 This is needed in order to remove gnome-mag. It's "still experimental" and there is no official release yet, so this shouldn't be a terrible loss in its current state. remove erlang-slang/1.0-3 See below; 1.0-2 was not the correct target version. :-P Unfortunately it's non-US... -- Now, the old ones, from http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/debian-release-200402/msg00060.html: remove amavis-ng/0.1.6.2-1 Note that this will also allow the removal of suidmanager to work. remove anubis/3.6.2-2.1 remove cl-uncommonsql/1.1.8.5-1 remove debian-guide/1.1.0 remove debian-guide-zh/0.6 remove erlang-mode/2.3-2 remove erlang-slang/1.0-2 Looks like this worked -- but it was the wrong version... see above remove gnome-mag/0.10.2-1 'vorlon' has a note saying that this 'can't be removed', but see above remove kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf/2.4.18-5 remove kernel-patch-2.4.17-s390/0.0.20020816-2 remove kernel-image-2.4.17-s390/2.4.17-3 remove rcconf/1.6 -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/
