[Secure-testing-team] Obsolete (testing) packages in security.debian.org

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Francesco,

On Saturday 17 May 2008 15:58, Francesco Poli wrote:
> As an example, let's take a look at php4.
> It was removed from unstable back on July 2007 and from testing on
> October 2007: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/php4.html
>
> OK, but there's still a testing-security update floating around on
> security.debian.org:

> Another case where a package should IMHO be automatically removed from
> security.debian.org testing/updates is whenever it has been superseded
> by a more recent version 

> What do you think about the above ideas?
> Do they make sense?

They make very much sense, that's why there's already a bug open on it :-)
See #464045.


cheers,
Thijs
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