On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:03:52AM +0000, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release > managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as > 'obsolete', eg. in aptitude. > > An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and who installs > other packages by aptitude will notice that those became 'obsolete'. She > or he might remove them from the system, as they are no longer supported > by debian and will have to look for alternatives. > > A savvy user, of course will know where to look for the developers > information and might guess that they might be returned in the not too > distant future, because he read on debian-devel that a new maintainer > was found [1]... > > ....but then again a geek user is not as dependent on update-* than the > ordinary user, I am concerned about [2].
Oh please... Can we move on ? We fully address [2]: a broken software, or an inadequate one is more a problem to me than not having it in Debian. Debian is about quality, not quantity. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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