removing non-essential packages (was HAMM FREEZE)
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On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Brian White wrote:
> Just a reminder to everyone that, barring exceptional circumstances, Hamm
> will be frozen on March 16th. I will be restricting uploads at that point
> to bug-fixes only. I'll also be removing all non-essential packages that
> still have critical, grave, or important bugs open.
*All* non-essential packages? You can't do that!
"Required packages are necessary for the proper functioning of the
system."
Even if they have an important bug, we should not drop these.
"Important packages should be found on any Unix-like system".
If we drop them than we can not call Debian a Unix-like system.
"Standard packages are standard on any Linux system"
The same as before, we could not call Debian a Linux system.
Are you sure you are going to orphan all those packages only because they
have a "severity:important" bug?
For example, I would much prefer a finger daemon that it is not 8-bit
clean than no finger daemon at all!!
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