On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 16. Februar 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > The idea was to leave them out of *testing*, not immediately dropping them > > from the archive. > Such a hint file could also (after a while...) be autogenerated and thus > maintainance free! :)
Please apply common sense. We had discussions about packages like lilo that were removed for RC-buggyness. Those are now blocked by some pseudo- packages and their removal through hints is prevented but I do not think that we cover all packages which people might rely on. (Yes, I am aware that they will still be present on the disks of the people that use the software, but if you find out that, say, your bootloader was dropped yonks ago is not particulary nice.) That maintainance should be done and if you want to do such removals, somebody should doublecheck them. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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