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Re: Packages still in Potato located



On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:06:19PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > There are about 150 packages of Woody still located in "dists/potato/".
> > What happens with these packages, do they stay there when woody is
> > released or are they transfered into pool before?
> 
> These would be packages which have not had a new, non-buggy version uploaded
> in the 8,000 years since potato was released.  They should probably be
> examined to see if they have many bugs, and should be removed altogether, or
> if someone wants to adopt them.

Some of them just have not required an update since potato was released.
A couple of them I recognized as being fine as they are.  I do not have
the list in front of me, but a sweeping generalization is not generally
wise in this case.

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