[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#327518: fetchmail-ssl: dummy package still needed?

[Graham Wilson]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:12:51PM +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> This dummy package is present in sarge, etch and sid.  As this is a dummy
> transition-only package, is there any reason this package
> should still exist in the distribution? Notice that we currently
> only support upgrade paths from stable (currently sarge) to
> "new stable" (currently etch) and in both these distributions
> this package is a dummy package.

We're only *required* to support upgrades from one version to the next,
but there is no reason not to support upgrades across multiple
distributions if the additional work needed is not much.

So yes, the package is not strictly need, but I think it is up to the
current package maintainers to decide if they want to continue to
maintain it.

> If this package is no longer required, please ask for its removal by
> reassigning this bug to ftp.debian.org.

The correct way to remove the fetchmail-ssl package would be to remove
it from the control file so that it is no longer built. The archive
software will handle the rest automatically.

-- 
gram