[Fwd: Re: Fwd: Abiword being removed from Debian/unstable?]

Thanks Steve

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Steve Langasek
> To: Daniel Glassey
> Cc: 258918@bugs.debian.org, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, Dom Lachowicz
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Abiword being removed from Debian/unstable?
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:58:52 -0700
>
> [answerinng only the off-topic parts, for clarification from the release
> team:]
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:35:48PM +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote:
>
> >--- Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>
> > >>I was checking whether a new version of Abiword was
> > >>available in
> > >>Unstable and decided to see what was holding the
> > >>current Unstable
> > >>version from moving into Testing (at
> > >>http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/abiword.html).
> > >>
> > >>Clicking on the "Check why" link for why it's not
> > >>there, it looks like
> > >>Abiword is scheduled for removal from Sid. See
>
> > >http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=abiword
>
> > >>I'm not a Debian developer at all, so I'm not sure
> > >>if this is a "common"
> > >>occurence. But as a (relatively inexperienced) user
> > >>it sounds like
> > >>Abiword is being pulled for some reason. (I don't
> > >>know how to find out
> > >>what that reason is.)
>
> You can find this information at
> <http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints>. The reason for the
> removal request was not 258918, which is far too recent to have shown up
> on the release team's radar yet as a removal issue, but 241279,
> affecting a library that abiword depends on. An alternative resolution
> for 241279 has since been found that doesn't involve ripping out abiword
> and half the GNOME metapackages depending on it, so abiword is no longer
> in danger of removal.
>
> Please feel free to forward this information to Andy, as I don't appear
> to have his email address.
Received on Wed Jul 21 16:19:28 2004