-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as 'obsolete', eg. in aptitude.
An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and who installs other packages by aptitude will notice that those became 'obsolete'. She or he might remove them from the system, as they are no longer supported by debian and will have to look for alternatives. A savvy user, of course will know where to look for the developers information and might guess that they might be returned in the not too distant future, because he read on debian-devel that a new maintainer was found [1]... ...but then again a geek user is not as dependent on update-* than the ordinary user, I am concerned about [2]. Johannes [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00049.html [2] No. 4 of http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIRj5YC1NzPRl9qEURAlo6AJ9thzfRaF/mJAU1Mw8EPFCxGBGNMACfeW1T b5+KTRdERomPTXe69tKJd2o= =9F6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
