Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Hello Debian mainainers, In accordance with the Etch wishlist^wTODOList[1], we need to remove from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. This is why Clément Stenac and I have tried to establish a list of the packages to be removed[2]. This[3] page also explains how the lis

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Mohammed Adnène Trojette [Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:46:19 +0200]: > Hello Debian mainainers, Hi! > [2] http://adn.diwi.org/wiki/index.php/DummyPackagesList > [3] http://adn.diwi.org/wiki/index.php/DummyPackagesStatus This two pages are asking for authentification. I guess this is not intende

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005, Adeodato Simó wrote: > This two pages are asking for authentification. I guess this is not > intended? Oops! It should be fixed ;-) Thanks. PS: I read the list. -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > Hello Debian mainainers, > > In accordance with the Etch wishlist^wTODOList[1], Do not confuse a personal wishlist with a real todo list. > we need to remove > from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. No, that's n

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: >> we need to remove >> from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy > packages, as they are also woody-to-etch dummy packages. We do not support that. No. So yes,

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: > > >> we need to remove > >> from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > > No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy > > packages, as they are also woody-to-etc

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Christian Perrier
> >> In a few weeks, we'll start filing RC bugs against the remaining > >> packages. > > RC bug? What the heck are you talking about? > > No RC Bug, normal severity. If its a dummy out of an (now) empty source I also agree with the severity to be normal. Which could, btw, have been said in a m

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/17/05, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we only support upgrades to the next release and not any other its > very clear to remove them from the archive. Does 'not supporting' equal 'requiring it to fail'?

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:51:23AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 7/17/05, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As we only support upgrades to the next release and not any other its > > very clear to remove them from the archive. > Does 'not supporting' equal 'requiring it to fail'?

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: we need to remove from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. >>> No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy >

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:40:32 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > In this context, woody->sarge transition packages are just one form of > useless cruft that we should strive to get rid of before the etch release. I agree and I've been busy getting rid of that cruft. It's a pleasure to see how much the

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: > we need to remove > from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > >>> No, t

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:51:23AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 7/17/05, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As we only support upgrades to the next release and not any other its > > > very clear to remove them from the archive. >

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > In this context, woody->sarge transition packages are just one > > form of useless cruft that we should strive to get rid of before > > the etch release. They're not the biggest source of cruft, but on > > th

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > In this context, woody->sarge transition packages are just one > > > form of useless cruft that we should strive to get rid of before > > > the etch release. T

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 17 July 2005 23.28, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> we need to remove > >> from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > > > > No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy > > packages, as they are also wo

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:54:56PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > In this context, woody->sarge transition packages are just one > > > > form of useless c

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Do you think having this in policy may be harmful? If so, why? > > > We supported upgrades that skip releases in the past, and now we do > > not (I suppose the fact that our release cycles are much long

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:57:14 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I see your point, but policy has never been a "permanent" thing. I have no idea where you get this impression. > For some time we have had a policy which mandated symlinks in > /usr/doc. Later we had e