On Friday 27 June 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
Well, the thing is, we have quite a clear policy, which is to remove
(not in period of a freeze of course) packages that are:
* leaf packages ;
* RC buggy ;
* for more than 20 days ;
* with absolutely no movement from the maintainer.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:51:59PM +, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 27 June 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
Well, the thing is, we have quite a clear policy, which is to remove
(not in period of a freeze of course) packages that are:
* leaf packages ;
* RC buggy ;
* for more than 20
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:34:00PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:31:24PM +, Joey Hess wrote:
Another case is NTP, which was kicked out of testing for a
licensing bug, causing much grief to be reported on debian-user.
FWIW I was the one asking the removal:
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
I'm not the one that removed the package, and I don't know the
rationale behind this removal.
How is that relevant? I really don't care if it was Tom, Dick or Harry who
did the actual removal. From my perspective this removal was done by the
Also,
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:34:00PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
FWIW I was the one asking the removal: upstream has a fix that is
backportable, not trivially, but that is. And there is openntpd that is
a drop in replacement for most desktop users (and I assume that testing
users
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
FWIW I was the one asking the removal: upstream has a fix that is
backportable, not trivially, but that is. And there is openntpd that is
a drop in replacement for most desktop users (and I assume that testing
users aren't really servers, that
On Sun June 29 2008 17:59:27 Frans Pop wrote:
Again, the only things you (the release team) have managed to achieve with
this are:
- cosmetically improving the RC stats for testing
- annoying developers and users
There's at least one other consequence. Some of us pointed out
that the new
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