At 15:49 Uhr -0500 04.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:
>One of my packages (xdvi) is no longer functional in its "stable" version,
>because the source has gone away from the upstream site.
>
>I made a package for the new version, in "unstable", a while ago.  But I
>haven't gotten any feedback from users about the new package.
>
>It was a bit more of a change than just changing the version number in
>this case, because the upstream maintainer has improved things for
>Darwin/OS X.
>
>So... in these circumstances, when do I move it to stable?  Only after
>I get feedback?  And should I remove the old version from stable now, since
>people can no longer use it?

You should fix the package in stable to use a different working 
mirror for now (no revision change is required). E.g. maybe use 
http://fink.sourceforge.net/bindist/source/xdvi-22.48.tar.gz


BTW, xdvi from unstable seems to work just fine for me.



Cheers,

Max
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