Re: Please notify the maintainers when removing packages

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Subject: Re: Please notify the maintainers when removing packages
From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 23:15:44 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] pan.2003.05.08.21.15.44.429668@smurf.noris.de>
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Hi,

On Wed, 07 May 2003 10:18:06 +0000, Sven Luther wrote:
>  I have the
> feeling that this is meant as a kind of punition or something such from
> the RM to those who don't fix their RC bugs fast enough.

While some might see that as a good thing :-/  those who are truly
going to be hurt by this are the people who actually use the package.

They will complain about Debian, not about their package's maintainer,
when they upgrade to Sarge and the program they've been using is
irretrievably auto-deinstalled.  :-(

> Friendly,

-- 
Matthias

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