Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:54:23PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Let me see if I got it right:
> You filed a bug against karchiver because it:
> * is not in etch (because it was not uploaded in time for etch),
> * is orphaned (...); and because
> * it has a "low" popcon (283/86 inst/vote; for a package that has never been
> in stable)
> And because of those reasons we are preventing a package from being shipped
> in lenny? Is that right?
Yes. I really don't think orphaned packages should be newly introduced
in stable releases if not necessary.
> IMHO there are many other packages that are better candidates for not being
> shipped in lenny than the above mentioned example.
Indeed, and I do not intend for this to be my last list of such
packages.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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