Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

Karl Chen wrote:
> Good points, I also discovered Synaptic works well for manually
> looking for removed packages.  Notifying PTS subscribers by email
> also sounds very useful.  Still, I worry about the people who
> don't know to check for removed packages - and aren't watching
> the packages that happened to be removed.

Well, people should probably just read the documentation that is provided
for them:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-obsolete