On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:07:54 +0200 Ronny Standtke <ronny.standtke@fhnw.ch> wrote: > GNU Solfege (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/solfege) needs mma for > several exercises. Could you please revert the removal of this package > from Debian? The short answer is no. solfege should have declared the dependency on mma, or used a Recommends. (Suggests would not have prevented removal.) mma was removed Wed, 01 Sep 2010 and it's taken this long for someone to notice? Doesn't look like anyone really cares enough about it. The only way mma will get back into Debian is if someone takes on the role of maintaining it upstream, updating it, packaging it and then introducing it into Debian. That *might* get it back into unstable and thence into testing, so that it would be available for Wheezy. There is no magic "undo" button for a package removal. There is no good reason to introduce mma back into Squeeze - the best option for those who have not noticed the removal for 9 months is to simply pull in the mma package from Lenny (oldstable). Before Wheezy is released, oldstable will be cleared out and will then be replaced by Squeeze when Wheezy becomes stable. Therefore, you only have until the Wheezy release process starts to be able to get mma from Lenny - after that, it will need to be via archive.debian.org -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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