Re: Where's xmmsarts?
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:
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[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
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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 [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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