Hi! On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:14:41 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid. > > > > > > 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the duplicates in > > > sid > > > are newer. > > > > > > I have generated a list of these packages. Anyone want to use it to > > > remove the offending packags from unreleased? > > > > Yes, please post them; I think at least Guillem can get them removed > > from unreleased. > > > > At this point, I think APT-pinning to prefer unreleased over unstable > > makes trouble than it has benefits, so /etc/apt/preferences should be > > adjusted. > > I added support to mini-dak to automatically remove obsolete packages > from unreleased long time ago. I'll check later on why it's not doing > that anymore.
So it seems I in fact didn't add such support. I might try to automate something, but there's the problem of mapping source package renames and similar which might be tricky. Anyway, cooked a list which I feeded to Aurelien Jarno to do a run of semi-automatic obsoleting. The archive should be clean for now. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
