Removal of Packages in Slink

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

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The following packages are due to be removed from Slink because of
release-critical bugs filed against them.  Please take a moment to
look over this list and get back to me asap if there are any problems.

ada-rm            27918  ada-rm: This large package should be architecture: all [0]  ()
apple2            27590  apple2: should be in contrib, not main [7]  (Tom Lear <tom@trap.mountain-view.ca.us>)
balsa             27726  balsa cannot be run [0]  (olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie))
balsa             27894  balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk [0]  (olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie))
cvs-pcl           22577  compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load &quot;cookie&quot;) [149]  (Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>)
dhcp-client-beta  18322  dhclient-script problem with &quot;EXPIRE&quot; [238]  (Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>)
dhcp-client-beta  19767  dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory [211]  (Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>)
freetype2-dev     27814  freetype2-dev: should not conflict with freetype1 [0]  (Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>)
gnome-gnothello   27405  gnome-gnothello doesn't run here [10]  (James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>)
gnus              25609  Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge  [64]  (Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>)
htdig             25412  htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute pathnames compiled in [70]  (Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>)
infocom           21478  infocom: Integrating infocom interpreters [175]  (Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>)
jdk1.1            27097  jdk1.1: error in installing jdk1.1: links are in a mess [18]  (Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>)
jdk1.1            27330  jdk1.1: Files should be conffiles [12]  (Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>)
jove              27219  jove: Jove wants /usr/tmp [14]  (Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>)
junkbuster        25258  junkbuster: junkbuster has security holes [74]  (Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>)
kaffe             20980  kaffe: kaffe depends on jdk-common [186]  ()
kdebase           23655  kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession [118]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdebase           25903  kdebase doesn't include rights to distribute kvt [56]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdebase           25974  kvt creates ~/.kde with root as owner and insane permissions  [55]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdegraphics       25627  kdegraphics violates copyright [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdelibs0g         24643  kdebase: We have no licence to distribute KDE binaries when linked against Qt [90]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdemultimedia     25628  kmultimedia violates copyright law (and debian policy) [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
kdeutils          25630  kdeutils copyright problems [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
knfs              27250  knfs (remote root exploit) [14]  (Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>)
libmagick4-dev    19332  libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217]  (scott@debian.org (Scott K. Ellis))
libpgjava         27753  libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which is now included in jdk1.1 [0]  (Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>)
lists-archives    26384  lists-archives: Missing conffiles [40]  (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
mozilla           27181  mozilla dumps core [15]  (Debian QA group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>)
netatalk          25598  netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64]  (Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>)
pcmcia-modules-2  27395  pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box [11]  (Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>)
pcmcia-source     26657  pcmcia-source: Needs this patch to work on 2.1.118+ kernels [32]  (Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>)
pil               27495  package pil should be python-pil [8]  (Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>)
qftp              27791  qftp depends on missing libary. [0]  (edmonds@freewwweb.com (Robert S. Edmonds))
qps               16635  qps: qps seems to be statically linked with QT and is in the wrong section [281]  (Hanno Wagner <wagner@linux.de>)
rt                23583  rt: lacking copyright [120]  (Ender <ewigin@petra>)
secure-su         26827  secure-su breaks findutils (And who knows what else) [25]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
smb2www           27641  perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0]  (Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>)
strace            26065  strace confused about sigaction flags [51]  (Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)
tkstep8.0         19255  Tkstep8.0 doesn't mention dependencies on tiff, jpeg and Xpm. [218]  (Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>)
vrwave            23436  vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124]  (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>)
xephem            19441  xephem-smotif: no-copyright-file LI#177 [217]  (Frank Jordan <f.jordan@uni-duisburg.de>)
xswallow          25932  Xswallow should be in contrib [55]  (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>)
yagirc            24747  yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87]  (davidw@efn.org (David N. Welton))

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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