On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:51:36AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:18:51PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > > > Package: ftp.debian.org > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > lkcdutils/lkcdutils-dev is currently a dummy transitional package > > > package to facilitate upgrades in sarge. It has been superseded and > > > should be completely removed for etch/sid. Please remove it from the > > > archive. > > > > lkcdutils and -dev are built from dumputils. Removing those packages > > from the archive makes no sense as on next upload you'd reintroduce > > them. > > We put lkcdutils/-dev in dumputils for transitional purposes and > intended to remove them once we knew that they'd be removed from the > archive. I'm uploading a new dumputils now that removes lkcdutils and > lkcdutils-dev, should I close this bug in the changelog when I do?
Yes. > > Please instead simply stop building those packages from the dumputils > > source package, and lkcdutils and -dev will disapprear > > semi-automagically. > > Is there some automatic culling process that will remove packages that > don't exist anymore or something? We are puzzled by this because we > aren't really sure we understand how this can work as at any moment > the package could be uploaded from some other place, so how can it be > known that it should be removed from the archive, except by filing a > bug to have it removed? The list of binary packages is decided by what the collection of source packages build. If you stop building a binary package, it'll be dropped. So you need to upload a new source package providing the replacement packages before or (best) simultaneously with dropping the older packages, if you want to keep them. Note that .dsc's have a Binary: header too explaining what binary packages they build, and more importantly, note that on every upload either all or none of the .deb's for a given architecture are uploaded. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
