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Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 6, 2002



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:03:46PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:20:23 +0200 (CEST)
> tomas p <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> wrote:
> 
> > > Interesting.  This is exactly the argument for removing unmaintained
> > > packages: just by existing they cause more work for certain people.
> > 
> > I assume naively that it's mostly software (bts, mirroring, etc. ) that
> > takes care of those packages. In what way do they cause work for people
> > that are not directly interested in those packages?
> > *t
> 
> 
> I'm interested in whole of Debian rebuilding from source.
> 
> These packages are a burden to me.

Well, if they don't rebuild from source then they should receive an RC bug
and will be removed at the next stable release.

There is no problem here.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.



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