Hi Alexander,

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:48:23AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050518 22:20]:
> > Package: tuxracer
> > Version: 0.61-6.4
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: sarge
> > 
> > This might technically not be a RC bug, but for not forgetting it:
> > 
> > I don't see any reason for shipping sarge with the obsolete
> > package in sarge instead of the transition package in unstable.

> I would agree (specialy, since I asked -release for it [1] and fucked up
> the transition when getting sick and missing freeze), but:  One day
> the transition package, tuxracer 0.61-7, hit sid, I got several mails
> (Uh... four I think), asking, why they can't stay with tuxracer.

> Three of them pointed out, that ppracer, the inofficial successor of
> tuxracer, runs quite slow on their hardware, while tuxracer still runs
> fine.

> And since tuxracer still compiles and runs, I tend to close this
> bugreport, but it would be okay for me, to move tuxracer 0.61-7 to
> sarge, if a release manger agrees to remove old software with dead
> upstream.

> But please note, that you then should push tuxracer-extras 0.5-2 into sarge,
> too.

I'm going to go ahead and push the tuxracer dummy packages into sarge, since
AIUI this is still your preference as the maintainer.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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