* Paul Wise (pabs@debian.org) wrote: > Hi Eric, QA folks, > > It seems that automake1.4 no longer has any reverse (build-)deps and we > are at the start of the wheezy cycle, so now might be a good time to > remove it. If you agree, please file a removal request. There's a few debian packages depending on it still. I'm a bit hesitant to remove it since old software might depend on its quirks. > automake1.7 still has 30 source packages with build-deps on it. Seems to > me that removing it is quite achievable in the wheezy cycle. I'm starting the process of removing it now. > automake1.9 has 2 binary packages with deps on it and 142 source > packages with build-deps on it. Removing this is probably also > achievable within the wheezy cycle. I'll see how the automake1.7 removal goes. I'd like to remove this one too. > automake1.10 has only 37 source packages with build-deps on it, so it > could also be removed. On the other hand it is a relatively recent > release so various upstream developers running testing might be relying > on it. Yeah, I'm not worried about removing it this release. -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
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