Re: removing swfdec from testing (gnome depends on it)

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

I wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 00:29 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer of swfdec and I'd like to have swfdec packages 
> > removed
> > from squeeze as upstream is no longer developping it, the problem here 
> > is
> > that gnome-desktop-environment is depending on swfdec-gnome, thus if we
> > remove swfdec we'll need to change the dependencies of
> > gnome-desktop-environment or otherwise gnome will loose some of its
> > packages.
>
> I've added a removal hint for swfdec0.8, swfdec-gnome and
> swfdec-mozilla.

You'll also need to file "should not be released with squeeze" RC bugs 
against all three packages, otherwise they will simply re-enter testing as 
soon as the removal hint is (manually or automatically) moved out of the 
way.

Regards,

Adam