Hi Kenneth, On 20-07-2019 22:10, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I have filed bugs with ftp.debian.org <http://ftp.debian.org> to remove > pychecker and epydoc from the archive. These packages are obsolete - > they rely on Python 2 and can't be converted to Python 3. I filed bugs > with all of the reverse dependencies back in November of 2017 advising > that I would remove these packages after buster was released. > Unfortunately, both packages still have some reverse dependencies (most > of which appear to be obsolete themselves). > > The Developer Reference says that a package will stay in testing until > no package in testing depends on it any more. In that case, it seems > like pychecker and epydoc will never be removed. Do I understand that > correctly? > > How am I supposed to handle this? Can my packages be removed from > testing manually? Or is there some other mechanism I should use? If you want to remove pychecker and epydoc from Debian, you need to discuss and align this with ftp.debian.org via a bug report. If they agree that those packages should go, they will also remove reverse dependencies. Once those are gone from unstable, testing will follow automatically. Paul
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