Re: Time to remove boot-floppies from unstable?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:21:32PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> 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 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).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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