Re: Candidates for removal

Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance,gmane.linux.debian.devel.jr
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509291013510.21035@wr-linux02>
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> These packages are candidates for removal by virtue of having
> been sitting in unstable without being in 'testing' for very long periods.
> It has a few false positives for packages which were kicked out of testing
> recently, but they are pretty good candidates too.
>
> This is based on http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html.  I have included
> only packages with RC bugs in this list, and I have also excluded
> the whole libroxen mishmash (something should be done about that, though)
> and all the lg-* packages, as well as packages with "keep this out of
> testing" bugs.

...

> 1266 days: tuxtype (0 waiting, new pkg, has RC bugs) [Rune B. Broberg]
>  Copyright issues (see bug 218908).  Jeroen wrote "let's see if someone
>  interested jumps in, otherwise, removal seems to be the best option to me."
>  -- on 21 June.  Someone said that they were trying to make a sponsored
>  upload on 18 August; I've pinged them.

I hope Debian-Junior guys will do some action ...
It would be a shame to loose this nice thing.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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