On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 16:07:35 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hi Niels, > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 01:20:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > > > 851819 flashplugin-nonfree will-remove ERROR: wget failed to > > > download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/... > [...] > > While I'm usually quite keen on removals, I'd suggest this one can be a > "can-defer". The downloader itself seems to still be working all that's > needed is a new signature for the new adobe release. > AIUI this doesn't even involve touching the package, only dropping the > signature in bartm's public_html on people.debian.org. > This can be done at any time to fix the package during stretch lifetime. > I guess the only reason this package is considered a key-package is > because it's very popular among users, so would be quite unhelpful of us > to remove it. > It probably shouldn't depend on a single person updating things, because clearly they aren't taking care of it timely, and haven't for quite some time.
Cheers, Julien
