On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:18:18PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Anyone know what happened to xmmsarts in unstable? > > It was removed because of some technical problems.
Specifically: ========================================================================= [Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:24:09 -0400] [ftpmaster: Ryan Murray] Removed the following packages from unstable: xmmsarts | 0.4-26 | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Closed bugs: 201289 ------------------- Reason ------------------- ROM; unusable due to conflicting gthreads libraries ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= See the referenced bug for more information. > IMHO is is not the best strategy to remove package when somewhat-hard-to-fix > bug is found. But people do this :( It's a hell of a lot better than ignoring the problem, which people do far more. I think removing hideously broken packages is something we should do rather more often, actually. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
