Hi Andreas, On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 01:45:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:52:20AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > are there any plans of uploading debian-science for stretch ? I have > > removed a Recommends from science-electronics in the git repo, the package > > (confluence) is cruft and should be removed completely from the archive. > > I guess I should wait for an upload of debian-science before asking > > [email protected] for removal of confluence. > > Usually Blends metapackages are upload *after* the freeze (short before > the release) since in freeze time packages can be removed which should > be reflected in the metapackage dependencies. So yes, there will be an > update. I was considering uploading before Christmas to keep the diff > as low as possible but I was not able to do so right in time. I might > consider an upload in the next couple of days anyway.
OK. Does this mean that I can ask [email protected] for removal of confluence now, or should I wait? -Ralf.

