Re: Draft for taging 32 RC bugs with can-defer, will-remove or is-blocker
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 16:07:35 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 01:20:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> [...]
> > > 851819 flashplugin-nonfree will-remove ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/...
> [...]
>
> While I'm usually quite keen on removals, I'd suggest this one can be a
> "can-defer". The downloader itself seems to still be working all that's
> needed is a new signature for the new adobe release.
> AIUI this doesn't even involve touching the package, only dropping the
> signature in bartm's public_html on people.debian.org.
> This can be done at any time to fix the package during stretch lifetime.
> I guess the only reason this package is considered a key-package is
> because it's very popular among users, so would be quite unhelpful of us
> to remove it.
>
It probably shouldn't depend on a single person updating things, because
clearly they aren't taking care of it timely, and haven't for quite some
time.
Cheers,
Julien
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