On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote:
[...]
However, for other people browsing the BTS, and for orphaned
packages, it would be much nicer if there was a bug filed against the
package itself, or some remark on bugs.debian.org/package that its
removal is requested. There could be several ways to achieve this.
[...]
- The QA pages are made aware of this. This would probably require
some standardized subject line like the bugs against wnpp have. One
possibility would just be RFR (request for removal), maybe with some
tags indicating which distribution would be affected. I like this
solution but one disadvantage is that a request for removal of N
packages would require filing N bugs. This would make things like
#198449 a little more inconvenient.
Probably there are other possibilities which I might have missed. The
first question is, would other people find this useful?
I would find this quite useful and I like the third solution, copied
above, best. Just a bug title like
RFR: agsatellite -- pointless since audiogallaxy is effectively dead
would help. I wouldn't consider tags neccesary - it would be enough if
you can easily see on the PTS that some version of the package is
threatened with removal and you can then always read the actual bug
report. If people want, I'll implement this for the PTS.
Peter
