On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 07:56:36PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Scripsit Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> > > > > openh323gk is a legacy package, and could be removed. > > > No, legacy packages should not be removed from the archive as long the > > > 'stable' release contains a non-dummy package with the same name. > > Transition packages need to be installable to be useful. As this one > > was not, > Certainly. The picture I got was that the testing version of the > package is installable in testing, but that the sid version would not > be installable if it propagated to testing now. That's correct. The version in unstable also held up the propagation of a number of other packages into testing -- shipping with an older upstream version of 10 packages doesn't sound better than shipping without a transition package for this name change (and the latter is generally easier to fix). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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