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Bug#475400: please update known_obsolete_packages



Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46

The "known_obsolete_packages" is particularry short, although
out archive is full of transitional pacakges. Q quick grep
on Packages for "transitional" and checking for reverse
depends yields atleast the following packages:

cdrecord gaim gnomemeeting gnuplot gs gs-aladdin gs-esp gs-gpl gs-common
libglu1-xorg libglu1-xorg-dev libmime-perl libungif4-dev
libxerces28 libxerces28-dev mailx mkisofs netcat netcdfg-dev
pcmcia-cs python-pyopenssl r-base ssh-krb5 ssh(?) 
tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra x-dev xbase-clients xlibmesa-gl
xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu xutils

Alternatively lintian could use debtag "role::dummy" to construct the
list. This would require maintainers to start using the tag more
actively..


-- 
"rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups



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