Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Dear FTP masters,
Please remove the pike-crypto-build source and binary packages from unstable. The package has been uninstallable for > 100 days since it is intended to support an older version of pike, 0.6, that no longer is available in Debian. The maintainers are in agreement with this request: Marek Habersack wrote: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > >>[Kevin, I'm Cc'ing Marek since he's the maintainer of pike*] >> >>I think this was the conclution Marek and I came up with last time we >>'spoke' about this... If memory serves me correcly, pike v0.6 is no more >>(in Debian) and pike-crypto-build is/was for that version of pike... > > Indeed, the only pike versions still in the archive are 7.6 and 7.7 > (in experimental) > > >>Marek, any opinions on this? > > Well, pike crypto build could be left in the archive for the sake of > backward compatibility with pike 0.6 (so that people still using it, for > some unknown and weird reason, can build the crypto stuff for debian) > but I don't really think this is necessary. Pike 0.6 is ancient history > and I would vote on removing every trace of it from the Debian repos. > > best regards, > > marek -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
