On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:53:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Moving this from IRC to the list: > <vorlon-work> Would it be worth considering a "testing" pseudopackage > that people could file removal requests against? > <Kamion> no problem as far as I'm concerned, although I occasionally > browse the ftp.debian.org pseudopackage. People sometimes file > bugs tagged sarge there. > <vorlon-work> hmm, that's a thought, I guess. > <vorlon-work> I'm just finding it easy to lose track of all the removal > requests coming in, the BTS seems like a good fix. > So I've been reluctant to do anything like this, because I really think > that overlaps with the RC bug list -- essentially everything in testing > with an RC bug should be removed from testing [0] and everything that > gets removed from testing should have an RC bug -- and refiling every > RC bug against some new package seems a bit silly. > Maybe we should use the "confirmed" tag on RC bugs as a cue that the > package definitely needs removing? (Or perhaps a "sarge-confirmed" tag > until version-tracking is finished) How much work would it be to make the "confirmed" tag usefully visible under http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical? We seem to be running out of colors on the palette there :), and having a handy list seems to be the catch. Not much point in trying to use the tag that way if it's not readily queriable; the mailing list isn't a terrible way to handle these, just not perfect. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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