Bug#365993: developers-reference: Please document automatic removal of obsolete packages from testing
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.3.7
Severity: normal
Please apply this small patch:
--- developers-reference.sgml 14 Apr 2006 21:09:08 -0000 1.289
+++ developers-reference.sgml 4 May 2006 08:52:57 -0000
@@ -3425,7 +3476,11 @@
<em>b</em>; then <em>a</em> may be removed to allow <em>b</em> in.
<p>
Of course, there is another reason to remove a package from testing: It's
-just too buggy (and having a single RC-bug is enough to be in this state).
+just too buggy (and having a single RC-bug is enough to be in this
+state). Furthermore, if a package has been removed from unstable, and
+no package in testing depends on it any more, then it will
+automatically be removed.
+
<sect2 id="circular">
<heading>circular dependencies</heading>
If you prefer, you can add a "by britney" at the end.
Thanks, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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