On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:28:18AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > with the testing dist-upgrade I did last week, some packages were removed. > Usually I trust apt and Debian not to remove application packages, but > this time it removed xv.
Don't ever, ever run dist-upgrade without looking over the list of removed packages. Ever. I believe that the next version of xfree86 will no longer force the removal of certain old packages. > Now I can't find this package in the Debian tree anymore, neither did apt > give me a reason why this package has been obsoleted or came with an > alternative. apt-get never gives you much in the way of reasoning, which is why I advise not using it for big upgrades. > Ideas where to find information why packages are obsoleted and removed > from the tree? http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt ========================================================================= [Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:39:32 -0400] [ftpmaster: James Troup] Removed the following packages from unstable: xv | 3.10a-24 | powerpc xv | 3.10a-25 | arm, m68k xv | 3.10a-26 | source, alpha, i386, sparc xv-doc | 3.10a-26 | all Closed bugs: 98215 ------------------- Reason ------------------- ROM; no permission to modify and redistribute. ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
