Re: Bug#305946: Please remove linc from unstable
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:45:49AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:26:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:42:03AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> > > Please remove the linc source package as well as the binary packages
> > > liblinc1 and liblinc-dev from unstable. This package has been included
> > > in ORBit2 2.8.0 and above and only a few packages remain that depend on
> > > it and need to be rebuilt.
> >
> > It makes things a lot easier if you file bugs on packages needing
> > rebuild a bit more in advance, it's now a bit close to release... Giving
> > the maintainers of the depending packages a bit of warning in advance
> > makes transitions like this go smoother. I'm a bit unsure how to
> > proceed, cc'ing -release for opinion.
>
> Does the removal from unstable even have an effect on the release? If I
> see this correctly, the package shouldn't be removed from from testing,
> since there are still packages depending on it in testing. I have no
> problems postponing this request to after the release, though.
No, but removing from unstable make it harder for an (unlikely)
last-minute bugfix in linc, but most importantly, since linc is indeed
quite outdated, it'd be *good* to have it removed from testing. I think
it'd be best to file important bugs on all depending packages, asking
them to rebuild to drop the linc dependency, and NMU those packages
shortly after so that linc can get dropped. Whether those "please
rebuild" bugs would be release-critical is an RM decision to make, I'd
vote 'yes'.
--Jeroen
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