Your message dated Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:15:40 +0000
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and subject line Bug#569296: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #569296,
regarding RM: pine -- ROM; unmaintained upstream, superseded by alpine
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Alpine is now at version 2.0. AFAIK, the only reason to keep pine in the
archive is that it has Maildir support built-in, while alpine has not.
However, I don't think that is a reason good enough to keep an obsolete,
non-free and unmaintained upstream software in the debian ftp servers.
My proposal is to remove pine from testing and unstable now. People
who still need it may well build it from the source in lenny/non-free,
but somehow we should send the message to any pine user that by the
time squeeze is released, pine will no longer be available in a non-free
deb-src line of sources.list by default.
[ X-Debian-Cc to Asheesh Laroia, maintainer of alpine, just in case he
has something to add ].
Thanks.
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
pine | 4.64-4 | source
pine-tracker | 4.64-4 | all
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; unmaintained upstream, superseded by alpine
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System. Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected].
The full log for this bug can be viewed at http://bugs.debian.org/569296
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