On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:10:20PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I propose that an removed packages archive of Debian (& non-free) > packages be created. This archive is to be kept separate from Debian > just as non-free is. if people are interested in this, they might want to contact the maintainer of snapshot.debian.net and try to work with them to get this set up. > Having BTS entries for removed packages is useful, however perhaps a > flag is needed for them to reduce the work of Debian-qa and other bug > squashers. Currently bugs are closed [1] on removed packages. For this > reason I would like there to be a tag for "removed" packages, to be > called "removed" and I would like their bugs to remain open on the > BTS. since all the bugs are archived, couldnt the old bugs be reopened if the package is brought back to life? if not is it possible to get the bts to do that? i guess what im saying is: i think we have a good start for setting this up using snapshot.debian.net and archived bugs. -- gram
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