Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 27, 1999
Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 03:16:13AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > > Package: telnet98 (non-US)
> > > Maintainer: Ian Lynagh <ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk>
> > > [REMOVE] Orphaned package, old maintainer can't even recompile it anymore.
> > > Someone must [HELP] or it'll be removed.
> > > 40035 telnet98: can't extract source
> > > 42883 telnet98_98.02.16-3(unstable): bad source package
> >
> > I've removed these two packages.
>
> Why didn't you create project/orphaned directory, and put telnet98 there?
That wouldn't have solved my bug: telnet98 had a bogus source package
(non-extractable, bad md5sum), and moving that to project/orphaned would
have only moved the problem.
I still have the Debian diff if you're interested.
Richard Braakman
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