On Tuesday, July 04, 2017 06:38:56 PM you wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:13:49AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:15:25 +0300 Andrew Shadura <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:36:06 +0100 Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Package: ftp.debian.org > > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > get-iplayer has had to be pulled from wheezy, and pulled from jessie > > > > during that freeze. It wasn't in stretch. > > > > > > > > Changes upstream are frequent and invasive enough (because of the > > > > every-shifting service get-iplayer tries to work with) that I have > > > > come > > > > to the conclusion it is never going to be in stable. > > > > > > > > There's therefore little point it being in sid, either. > > > > > > Well, I still find it useful in sid. > > > > Would this be better as a maintainer change than a removal? > > I'm happy for it to be adopted, but I still don't think unstable is the > right place for this. Packages there are meant to be destined for testing > even if they can't migrate immediately. > > Maybe a PPA or something would be more suitable.
It got no takers so I've gone ahead with the removal. Scott K
