Re: Removing pseudo package "kernel"

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

In gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel, you wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> > BTS administrators, all bugs have been reassigned to linux-2.6 Can
>> > you please disable the "kernel" pseudo package?
>> 
>> If there are no objections, I'll remove this around the 1st of the
>> year.
>
> I've gone ahead and removed the psuedopackage; there will be a bit of
> a delay before everything gets into sync, but that should happen
> shortly.
>
> I'd also appreciate it if one of you would occasionally check the
> kernel package to make sure that bugs aren't languishing there from
> releases of reportbugs which have kernel still listed as a valid
> psuedopackage.

The reportbug maintainers told me that current reportbug redirects
bugs filed against "kernel" against the pseudo package "linux-image".

This pseudo package doesn't even have debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
listed as the maintainer:

---
Debian Bug report logs - [1]#509992
linux-image: Kernel (amd64) frequent oopses and freezes

   [2]version graph

   Package: [3]linux-image; Maintainer for [4]linux-image is [5](unknown);

   Reported by: [6]Ioannis Ramfos <isr@edu.demokritos.gr>

   Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:24:02 UTC
---

Fortunately there's only one bug filed against "linux-image", which I'll
reassign now.

So, please remove the "linux-image" pseudo package as well.

I'll check "kernel" and "linux-image" for some time manually. There's also
people triaging bugs filed against unknown packages to close bugs against
removed packages, so they should notice them as well.

Thanks,
        Moritz