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Re: Please update blackbox and bbkeys into testing.



On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0400, Bruno Barrera C. wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:17 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Bruno Barrera C. (bruno@debian.org) [050513 16:50]:
> > > As the subject says, I'm requesting the incorporation of blackbox
> > > (0.70-4) and bbkeys (0.90-2) into testing, since the the current
> > > versions are totally deprecated.

> > Hm, blackbox by itself has 113339 changed lines (in the usual debdiff
> > notation), and bbkeys still almost 40000. That is _way_ too much. sarge
> > is frozen.

> > Are the versions in sarge so much deprecated that we're better off with
> > not shipping them at all?

> They are very deprecated.

> I think that not to include blackbox and bbkeys into Sarge is a really
> bad idea, since there are currently many people using it (Blackbox
> confirms the slogan of 'Recyclable Linux' due its well-known features).

> Is there any possibility to include it?

Not at those versions new versions.  We are in a *freeze*.

You can either have the old versions in sarge, or you can ask to have them
removed.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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