Andrej Shadura writes: > On 31/01/18 21:01, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >>> Here you go, there's #871004 for you. Missed jessie, stretch, >>> not in testing, no uploads since the beginning of 2017. >> >> I don't think you'll get much sympathy for a package being removed >> from unstable when it hasn't shipped with a Debian release since >> Wheezy, and has continuously been out of Testing for 3.5 years. > > True, it hasn't. But if you look a little bit closer, you'll see both RC > bugs it had were quite trivial to fix: two sourceless files (would be > fixed by linking them to the packaged versions instead), and an failed > attempt to download a build-dep (actually, fixed by an NMU while fixing > another bug, just never marked as done).
So there was plenty of time to fix them. Why would filing a third RC bug (the "proposed-RM") and waiting one month more change anything? Why would someone turn up to fix them now? Ansgar
