Bug#570997: timeout: Candidate for removal from ftp-master

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Mon Feb 22 21:49:06 UTC 2010


reassign 570997 tct
retitle 570997 tct: Remove superseded timeout binary package
thanks

[ Bah, wrong source package. ]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 18:39:48 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Source: timeout
> Source-Version: 1.19-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
> 
> Latest coreutils Conflicts and Replaces on timeout, which makes the
> latter quite useless, as it cannot be installed at all being the
> former an “Essential: yes” package. So I'd suggest asking for the
> removal of timeout from unstable. This can be easily done by
> reassigning this bug report to the ftp-masters with something like:
> 
> ,---
> reassign <bugnum> ftp.debian.org
> retitle <bugnum> RM: timeout -- ROM; uninstallable; superseded by coreutils
> thanks
> `---
> 
> For more information see <http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals>.

Actually discard the ftp-master part, the binary package timeout just
needs to be dropped, that's all.

thanks,
guillem



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