On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Scott Johnston wrote:
Is there a file somewhere that lists packaged removed from woody
along with reasons why? I have failed to find this information by
web and mailing list searches of debian.org. I never saw the ivtools
packages in any "Release-critical Bugreport", but they seem to
have disappeared (all but ivtools-doc) from the newly stable
distribution.
You are not the only one who is wondering about that. One reason might be
that those packages had RC bugs in the late April and so the did not made
their way into the frozen Woody at May 1st. The situation could be even
worse if fixing the RC bug requires a name change of that package which
was the case for two packages maintained by myself. This caused a longer
delay to integrate the fixed packeges and so they were removed more or
less silently because the BTS does not show bugs which are fixed a long
time ago (at least not by default).