Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

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Subject: Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:25:17 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> It does make backports easier. More than one generation back, though, the
> value diminishes rapidly.

If the transitional package was added late to stretch, it will
probably still be needed in Ubuntu until Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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- MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)
  - From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)
  - From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
- Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)
  - From: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>

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