On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:55:34PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:lxnm recommends lxpanel-netstat-plugin which is described as transitional in its short description.Thanks for info me this.If transitional, then it seems more appropriate to me that lxnm instead recommends the package(s) that lxpanel-netstat-plugin transitioned into.However, the lxnm and lxpanel-netstat-plugin are both deprecated. What's the best way to make user who installed these in lenny may transition smoothly to squeeze(without lxnm and lxpanel-netstat-plugin)?
Oh, lxnm is phaes out too? Then first thing is to properly mention that in short and long description, I guess. Now nothing in that package indicates deprecation or it being transitioning to something else!
Also, there's a typo in the short description of lxpanel-netstat-plugin: it is not "transiational" but "transitional".
And don't let any of them depend/recommend the other but instead on that/those package(s) that replace them, so that nothing points in the direction of those packages being phaed out.
NB! If a package ends its lifetime before have never yet entered stable, there is no need to keep it around as a transitional dummy package: Simply request its removal in a bugreport against ftp.debian.org - after ensuring that nothing else in the archive references it.
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