Bug#484129: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'
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Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release
managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as
'obsolete', eg. in aptitude.
An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and who installs
other packages by aptitude will notice that those became 'obsolete'. She
or he might remove them from the system, as they are no longer supported
by debian and will have to look for alternatives.
A savvy user, of course will know where to look for the developers
information and might guess that they might be returned in the not too
distant future, because he read on debian-devel that a new maintainer
was found [1]...
...but then again a geek user is not as dependent on update-* than the
ordinary user, I am concerned about [2].
Johannes
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00049.html
[2] No. 4 of http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract
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