Bug#462178: please remove this package
Dear Holger,
On 11/02/2008, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Dear Raphael,
>
> > This package is being tracked by me
>
> I saw your mail to this bug, but I consider QA work team work :-)
Sure it is :)
>
> > and its removal will be requested after
> > giving a grace period of time (more than one week) so there are more
> > chances for people to adopt it.
> > I orphaned the package just a few days ago, so please wait a little bit
> > more.
>
> Why? Did you look at http://bugs.debian.org/230358 ? The package does not work
> at all with a 2.6 kernel. A 2.4 kernel was last shipped with sarge, so there
> is absolutly no point in keeping it any day longer in sid.
But if you re-read the bug report you will see that the necessary
changes to fix it aren't many (but I should probably reconsider that
because of /proc not existing in newer kernels, starting with .24?)
>
> > Normally package removals should not be requested before two months since
> > the package has been orphaned. In the case of this package I'll request its
> > removal within two weeks.
>
> As you wrote: "normally"...
>
> This package should not have been part of the etch release, so it's pointless
> to wait any day longer. Heck, you could even request its removal from
> stable :-)
I've already requested its removal from stable :)
I don't see any real problem on keeping this report a few more days on
wnpp to give people the opportunity to see it is up for adoption.
IMO some people prefer to fix an existing package than to 'Debianise'
from scratch, hence my desire to keep it a few more days.
But if you believe it really makes no sense at all to keep the report
open on wnpp feel free to reassign it to ftp.debian.org with a correct
removal request subject and CC me so I update packages-actions.txt
>
>
> regards,
> Holger
>
>
Kind regards,
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