On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:41:22PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I was going through the RC bug list while preparing the BSP. The > following packages are IMHO candidates for removal from testing.
> remove ddt/0.5.9.1
> old RC bug (cannot fulfill build-deps), from the comments in the BR
> I read that it is nontrivial to fix and a upstream issue.
Hmm, I don't see anything in that report that would imply it's
particularly hard to fix. Hinted, regardless.
> remove lgc-pg/0.32-1
> remove lgeneral/1.1.1-3
> "move to contrib" issue, no response from maintainer ("only" three weeks
> old, though).
Four weeks. Hinted.
> And there are many kernel removal suggestions (as RC bugs) for
> kernel-headers-2.2.20-sparc
> kernel-image-2.2.20-sun4dm-smp
> kernel-image-2.4.17-s390
> kernel-patch-2.2-lids
> kernel-patch-2.2.17-vm-global
> kernel-patch-2.2.18-vm-global
> kernel-patch-2.2.20-arm
> kernel-patch-2.2.20-p3
> kernel-patch-2.2.20-raid
> Some of them should probably removed from unstable, too.
> I'm not familiar enough with kernel issues too make final
> suggestions here (but all of them sound reasonable to me).
I would expect that all of these should be removed from unstable, and
suggest that filing a bug against ftp.debian.org for each requesting its
removal would be better than having then hand-processed for both testing
*and* unstable.
Thanks,
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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