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: > > > Package: ftp.debian.org > > > Severity: wishlist > > > 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? It does if one of the depending packages needs to be updated for an RC bug, and this becomes non-trivial due to the removal of this library. OTOH, if the library package truly is something that we should be trying to remove, then such an RC bug is almost certainly grounds for removing the affected package from testing (and if not, that's what t-p-u is for). Jeroen, feel free to remove linc from unstable; the reverse-dependencies would then have an RC bug (uninstallable and/or FTBFS), but should be tagged sid for the time being. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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