On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:50:17PM +0100, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > it would be nice if developpers makes it easier to justify why this > update is neccessary. The manner in which Christian Marillat orphaned his GNOME packages has sparked a lot of discussion, and I have not seen anyone countenance it as a wise or friendly course of action. (I'm not sure it was intended as such, to be honest -- it looks more like a paroxysm of frustration.) The proper procedure for orphaning packages is documented in the Debian Developers' Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-orphaning -- G. Branden Robinson | Life is what happens to you while Debian GNU/Linux | you're busy making other plans. branden@debian.org | -- John Lennon http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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