Re: "removed" Debian packages section&BTS tags
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:10:20PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> ****I will (eventually) consult with debian-qa as to why unmaintained
> packages are removed from unstable.
Currently, they are only removed if there are other problems (and I
don't suggest changing this, although perhaps others have). There seem
to be some serious misconceptions here.
I'm going to suggest the removal of some orphaned packages soon. A
sample is epan, which has not only been unmaintained for some time but
also is non-free, has no source code, no upstream, and has a better free
alternative. If you think it's being considered *only* because it's
unmaintained, you're mistaken; being unmaintained essentially means that
the QA group ends up deciding whether it should stay in the archive,
since nobody else wants to.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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