On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > What's happened to the task- packages? > > > > > > Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages > > > are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by > > > something new? > > > > The task-* packages in their current form have been pulled from the > > archive. Properly maintained metapackages are to come in their place, > > some have already appeared. > > What list should one read to be aware of such changes?
Try debian-devel, it is generally good to read that list if you are running unstable or testing. Supposedly, important announcements should be sent to debian-devel-announce, but many interesting topics are only ever mentioned on debian-devel. Cheers, Joost