Secure testing team - Sep 2009 - r12791 - data/packages

Author: gilbert-guest
Date: 2009-09-11 18:40:00 +0000 (Fri, 11 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 12791

Modified:
   data/packages/removed-packages
Log:
removed-packages is for packages that have been dropped from all releases
- zope3 is only removed from unstable at this point

Modified: data/packages/removed-packages
==================================================================---
data/packages/removed-packages	2009-09-11 18:24:14 UTC (rev 12790)
+++ data/packages/removed-packages	2009-09-11 18:40:00 UTC (rev 12791)
@@ -218,4 +218,3 @@
 verlihub
 gpdf
 usermin
-zope3

my interpretation of removed-packages is that it is for packages that
are not in any of the supported releases.  i.e. the file says, ''This
file lists packages which are no longer present in the Debian
archive...,'' which to me says that the package should not be currently
in any supported release.  however, some of the packages listed there
are still present in etch and lenny.  is that a mistake?

is that file for unstable removals or complete removals?

mike

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:51:11PM -0400, Michael Gilbert
wrote:
> my interpretation of removed-packages is that it is for packages that
> are not in any of the supported releases.  i.e. the file says,
''This
> file lists packages which are no longer present in the Debian
> archive...,'' which to me says that the package should not be
currently
> in any supported release.  however, some of the packages listed there
> are still present in etch and lenny.  is that a mistake?
> 
> is that file for unstable removals or complete removals?
AFAICT the only purpose of data/removed-packages is to mark all the
packages, which have been removed from all suites, since otherwise
the packages would show up on 
http://idssi.enyo.de/tracker/data/unknown-packages 
(which is useful to spot typos in source package names)

So, yes, an addition to data/removed-packages is only needed if the
package is no longer present in oldstable. It would be nice if that
is added to the introductory document if it''s not present yet.

Cheers,
        Moritz

* Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> AFAICT the only purpose of data/removed-packages is to mark all the
> packages, which have been removed from all suites, since otherwise
> the packages would show up on 
> http://idssi.enyo.de/tracker/data/unknown-packages 
> (which is useful to spot typos in source package names)
Right.  It''s only necessary to list packages for which no
<removed>
item is in the list files.