Bug#224469: Time to remove boot-floppies from unstable?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:51:41AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:21:32PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote to debian-boot:
> > The boot-floppies package isn't in 'testing'. As far as I know, it
> > doesn't work any more in 'unstable' and isn't maintained except for
> > 'woody'. It's certainly not going to be used for sarge or future
> > releases, now that debian-installer is basically functional (and its
> > modular design has proved itself).
> >
> > So why is boot-floppies still in 'unstable'? Perhaps it's time to
> > remove it from the archive?
>
> I second that proposal.
> This bugreport is to get it on our TODO list.
In that case I should ensure that this comment is in the bug log:
I believe that the reason in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0308/msg00025.html still
applies, unfortunately. Fixing that would be up to the stable release
manager (and I have no idea why it hasn't been done already - perhaps
the right people simply haven't noticed).
The gist of that URL is that the only place where we currently have the
source for boot-floppies 3.0.23 is in unstable, and that's the version
of disks-* currently in the stable release.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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