Re: metamail removed
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> >http://packages.qa.debian.org/<package> is a very useful source of
> >information ;)
> Thanks for this usefull link, but in that case, it just says:
>
> This package is not part of any Debian distribution. Thus you won't
> find much information here
>
> According the news RSS following that, the package was removed from testing
> in 2009, what seems curious, as I still had it until December 2012.
> Anyway, that doesn't tell me why it was removed.
>
Searching in packages [1] for metamail leads me to a list of news, the first one
(in reverse chronological order) telling me that it has been removed from testing
because not in unstable (Hint: Package not in unstable), the second one [2] with
the reason you were probably seeking ("RoQA; orphaned, missing upstream, buggy").
There is a bug report linked, with additional additional-info.
Does this help?
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/metamail/news/20091217T215210Z.html
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