Hello world,
As promised, a bunch of packages that aren't in a fit state to be released
(ie, have release-critical bugs) are being removed from woody. The first
phase includes the following packages:
activedvi ilisp pks
ale-clone jetspeed qtss
ale-clone-cogliati juice rep-xmms
anarchism jumpnbump rxtx
asiya24-vfont jumpnbump-levels scalemail
autoinstall-i386 kernel-patch-folk smsclient
blitz++ libmovtar solid-pop3d
celestia libsdl1.0 spruce
cheesetracker libsdl1.1 sslwrap
cint licq tads
csl licq-ssl tkhylafax
drsync logcheck tknamazu
elm-me+ mantis toppler
encompass msttcorefonts tripwire
freenet mueller ts
freenet-unstable namazu ude
freeswan namazu-el verilog-mode
ganso nitpic webrt
gccchecker ntop wmcpu
genext2fs nullmailer wxd
gnome-admin oaklisp x11iraf
gnotepad+ octave-plplot xconq
grdb onshore-timesheet xfaces
gtalk openc++ xfonts-thai-vor
hdf5 phpgroupware xmltex
hztty pipsecd
Note that this list is by source package, not binary package, and a
number of these packages were removed due to bugs in one specific binary
or another.
This isn't the last word on the matter in a number of ways: there are
certainly going to be more removals, but there's also still some chance
for some of these packages to get back into woody if the appropriate bugs
are fixed and the package is given enough time to be tested and stabilise.
Note that none of these packages have been removed from unstable as part
of this purging.
Also, the fact that the Debian packages of the above software isn't
suitable for release shouldn't particularly be taken as a reflection
on the original authors' work, for various reasons, none of which are
particularly interesting.
Additionally, a fair number of release critical bugs have been downgraded
as part of this process, including most or all of the "binary-all target
doesn't build" bugs filed by Junichi Uekawa. That they've been downgraded
doesn't mean that they aren't bugs though, nor that they shouldn't be
fixed for woody.
Cheers,
aj, woody release manager
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Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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