Re: Release Notes: Proposed patch for obsolete (deleted || dummy) packages
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:02:07AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> [1] There is no official deadline as of yet, and potato was supported for
> a year after its release (see
According to http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan the
security team tries to support updates for about one year after the next
stable release.
> + as a direct consequence that only limited support for these
> + packages will be provided through security updates while official
> + security support for &oldreleasename; is provided, which usually
> + lasts a few months after the release, but not more. There is no
s/a few months/one year/
> + functionality they provide has been superceeded by a different
s/superceeded/superseded/
> + &oldreleasename; it will have kept track of those packages you
> + manually installed and will be able to mark as obsolete those
> + packages pulled in by dependancies alone which are no longer
s/dependancies/dependencies/ (I'm not sure whether it's wrong, but it's
nevertheless useful to be consistent)
> + not used by any other packages. Do not blindly remove the packages
> + that are presented by those tools, specially if you are using
s/specially/especially/
> +<!-- JFS: Should we recommend purging old packages? This might be
> +dangerours since the maintainer scripts might try to remove stuff that
s/dangerours/dangerous/
> + <p>If you want additional information on why the package was
> + removed you might find additional information in the <url
s/additional information/this/
> + empty packages with dependancies that will pull in the new
s/dependancies/dependencies/
> + <item>freeciv, has been splitted into freeciv-client and freeciv-server.
I know :-))
PS: At bottom of your patch you have an empty list of splitted packages :-)
> + <item>plex86, replaced by bochs.
Ahm, I'm not sure about this. From Plex86 changelog: "Plex86 is dead
upstream.". Package description:
"The functionality of Plex86 in debian has been superceeded by the Bochs
package."
Bochs has a similar functionality but does it really replace plex86
which was designed to be a VMWare clone which executes i386 code natively
in contrast to bochs which emulates everything?
> + <item>tuxracer, replaced by planetpenguin-racer.
Thanks, I have to remember this.
> + and do a query based on the bugnumber.</p>
s/bugnumber/bug number/
> + the bugnumber.</p>
> + the bugnumber.</p>
s/bugnumber/bug number/
> + <heading>Packages removed for other reasons</heading>
> + abuse (202384)
> + alsa-utils-0.4
> + xamixer-0.4
Funny sorting xmixer < althea? :-))
> + althea
> + amavis-postfix (182493)
> + auto-pgp
> + everybuddy
> + fudgit (160547)
> + (1:3.0.3ds3-1) gcc-3.0-base (257185)
Different format (version number) makes automatic parsing more difficult ...
> + <sect id="renames"><heading>Renamed Packages</heading>
> + <sect id="renames"><heading>Renamed Packages</heading>
> +
> + <p>The following packages have been renamed as shown. In most, if
> + not all, cases, Conflicts:, Replaces:, and Provides: fields (or even
> + dummy packages) have been provided so the new package will either
> + get installed automatically, and/or will safely replace or remove
> + the old one. This also includes packages that have been merged into
> + other packages as this gives the same end result as a rename.
> + battstat-applet -> gnome-applets
gnome-applets conflicts with battstat-applet but does not Replaces: it.
> + dvipdfm -> tetex
Are you sure you want to refer to the source package tetex not tetex-bin, ...?
> + fetchmail-ssl -> fetchmail
fetchmail-ssl is a dummy package! Add it to dummy package category!
> + ftpfs -> lufs
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + greg -> gnustep-guile
Sorry, I can't find gnustep-guile
> + iv -> ida
> + jfsprogs -> jfsutils
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + kernel-patch-2.4-selinux -> kernel-patch-2.4-lsm
kernel-patch-2.4-lsm is in stable only!
> + mico-bin -> mico
mico doens't exist
> + morse -> unixcw
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + mproc -> mps
In stable only??
> + mps -> openmosix
Hah, combine the last two into mproc -> openmosix?
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + netsaint -> by nagios
s/by //
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + ucsc-smartsuite -> smartsuite
In stable only
> + w3mmee-ssl -> w3m
correct: w3mmee-ssl->w3mmee->w3m
Add: w3mmee->w3m
> + zoggy -> cameleon
No Conflicts: nor Replaces:
> + <p>Between releases 3.0 (`woody') and &release; (`sarge'), a number of
no hardcoding of release name sarge please
> + all of these components.Some packages will display a notice
Add missing space
Puh, now it's time to sleep.
Jens
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