On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:51:45PM +0100, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:57:28AM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:18:54AM +0100, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a > > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > We added a list of "removed" packages in the previous release notes (how > > > was it generated?) but I don't believe it mentioned these tips. > > > > I attempted to generate that list and included it in an early draft of the > > release notes, however when I discussed this with some other developers it > > was > > decided that it was more useful to provide instructions on finding the > > obsolete > > packages on the user's system rather than providing a large and unwieldly > > list > > in the release notes. > > Understood. Maybe the numbers, howevers, would be appropiate as well as > tips on how to find why package X is not in the release (maybe pointing to > ftp.debian.org's BTS entry, the WNPP, etc...)
I do not think we have such an entry for BTS but this is an excellent idea. Virtual BTS entry name like "release-sarge" which get tended by release note maintainer(s) will be nice. Then we can reference them as: http://bugs.debian.org/release-sarge
