Re: precheck depends before package removal; notification period

2003-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:33:36PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: > Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a > package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify > maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was > the case with the disappearance

precheck depends before package removal; notification period

2003-06-30 Thread Mark Hedges
Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was the case with the disappearance of perlapi-5.6.1. --mark--