Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
>xxxterm: bugs 718074, flagged for removal in 8.3 days I use debian offline so it is of no consequence to me however I just wanted to say. xxxterm (now xombrero) is by far my favourite browser and rediculously faster than any other browser whilst still being highly useful and with better whit

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > Would this be addressed by building some mechanism (making tombstone > packages comes to mind, but there are many options) for apt to > prompt to remove packages that were removed in the archive? It is already addressed by the user-oriented package man

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:51:42PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer a écrit : > > I really doubt that possibly interested people will subscribe to all the > packages they are interested in. Hello everybody, in one way or the other, there will always be some people who miss the inform

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 07/10/13 23:04, Bill Allombert wrote: > I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, > the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the > removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. > This, then, cause stable releases to be missing p

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. Would this be addressed by building some mechanism

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi Bill, Bill Allombert wrote (07 Oct 2013 22:04:21 GMT) : > I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, > the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the > removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. I believe there are good chance

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 08 October 2013 01:51:41 Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly > > remainder, other interested third-party might. > > anyone interested in a package can opt-in via t

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly > remainder, other interested third-party might. anyone interested in a package can opt-in via the PTS... cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > This is a friendly reminder. If you are listed below, then the listed > packages of yours will be automatically removed from testing within 15 > days. The "first batch" of automatic removals will happen in about 8 > days. >

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote: > Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) >vice: bugs 693641, flagged for removal in 8.3 days Bug #693641 is another interesting edge case: Found in version vice/2.3.dfsg-4 (testing, unstable, stable) Fixed in version vice/2.4.dfsg-1 (unstable) Marked as done But it

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Niels Thykier (2013-10-06): > It looks like this is caused by kfreebsd-8 being marked with > "Extra-Source-Only: yes", presumably because something lists it in > "Built-Using". For most parts it means the package is already removed > but not all tools seem to recognise this e.g. the PTS, the BTS

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-06 13:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote: >>kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days > > Not sure why that's appearing in this list because: > 1. the package was removed from testing over a month ago at the

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote: >kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days Not sure why that's appearing in this list because: 1. the package was removed from testing over a month ago at the request of the maintainer, and 2. when that happened the bug