Hi Hilmar, On 27-07-2019 19:56, Hilmar Preuße wrote: >> Yes, the migration software should have prevented your package from >> migrating, but I mostly wonder, was this drop intentionally, and can >> the situation be made more friendly towards your reverse build >> dependencies? I.e. a transitional package until all packages have >> migrated away (what should they use now?) >> > The package is a "transitional dummy package" even in Debian stable and > now we dropped it. That you for this very relevant data point. I'll use this when I file the bugs. > I can't tell when it was made transitional as there > is no changelog entry. Yes, dropping this package is also not mentioned. Informing reverse (build) dependencies in such cases is nice thought (don't know if that happened at the time, I'm not going to investigate that). Paul
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