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Re: bwap and teknap



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I agree; I was thinking of creating an empty transition package, but I
don't think the clutter is called for.  Can bwap please be removed from
unstable and/or testing?

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:49:10PM +0200, Yotam Rubin wrote:
> Gentle people,
> 
> Should we drop the bwap package? I ask this because bwap's official name was
> changed to teknap. There's a package for both clients. Having a package for
> both clients is the same as having different packages for different revisions
> of the same program. This might be desired from time to time, but I don't
> believe it's required here. Having both bwap and teknap exist in the archive
> only increases confusion amongst users.
> The teknap maintainer seems to be aware of this situation and he had provided
> the appropriate "Replaces" and "Conflicts" lines for his package. 
> I think dropping bwap from the distribution is in order.
> 
> 	Regards, Yotam Rubin  
> 
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Dan

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