Debian Bug report logs - #308713
Please remove expect-dummy from sarge

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: expect: Dummy packages still needed?

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:59:21 +0200

Package: expect
Version: 5.30.1-11

The expect source package creates a number of dummy packages that were 
targeted at potato->woody upgrades but are still available in sarge/sid. If 
there is no reason to keep these dummy packages please remove them from the 
distribution. Dummy packages include: expect5.24, expectk5.24, expect5.31 
and their -dev packages.

Regards

Javier

Message #10 received at 308713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>

To: "Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña" <jfs@computer.org>, 308713@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308713: expect: Dummy packages still needed?

Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:21:54 -0700

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:59:21AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> wrote:
> The expect source package creates a number of dummy packages that were 
> targeted at potato->woody upgrades but are still available in sarge/sid. If 
> there is no reason to keep these dummy packages please remove them from the 
> distribution. Dummy packages include: expect5.24, expectk5.24, expect5.31 
> and their -dev packages.

I was under the impression that official support for upgrades is current
release - 2, so potato->sarge should be possible. If I'm misunderstanding
(or if I'm just imagining that), I'd be glad to remove the dummy
packages...

-- 
Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>

Message #15 received at 308713-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>

To: Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>

Cc: 308713-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308713: expect: Dummy packages still needed?

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:41:17 +0200

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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote:
> 
> I was under the impression that official support for upgrades is current
> release - 2, so potato->sarge should be possible. If I'm misunderstanding
> (or if I'm just imagining that), I'd be glad to remove the dummy
> packages...

Official support is for security updates, not for the upgrade path, see 
#308697. Most of the dummy packages created for potato->woody have been 
already removed and I wouldn't count on potato->sarge working, users should 
do potato->woody->sarge instead.

Regards

Javier

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Message #24 received at 308713-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>

To: "Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a" <jfs@computer.org>

Cc: 308713-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308713: expect: Dummy packages still needed?

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:13:40 -0700

reassign 308713 ftp.debian.org
retitle 308713 Please remove expect-dummy from sarge
thanks

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:41:17AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> wrote:
> Official support is for security updates, not for the upgrade path, see 
> #308697. Most of the dummy packages created for potato->woody have been 
> already removed and I wouldn't count on potato->sarge working, users should 
> do potato->woody->sarge instead.

I haven't seen that from Steve Langasek, but I'm perfectly willing to
believe you, Brendan, etc.

FTP masters, all packages built by the expect-dummy source package are
potato -> woody transition packages. They should be removed, along with
expect-dummy, from sarge.

Thanks,

-- 
Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>

Message #29 received at 308713-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 308713-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#308713: fixed

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:06:20 -0400

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

expect-dummy |    1:1.0-1 | source
expect5.24 |  5.30.1-12 | all
expect5.24-dev |  5.30.1-12 | all
expect5.31 |   5.31.8-8 | all
expect5.31-dev |   5.31.8-8 | all
expectk5.24 |  5.30.1-12 | all
expectk5.31 |   5.31.8-8 | all

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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