Bug#859005: Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Mon Oct 16 15:53:43 UTC 2017


Am 16.10.2017 um 17:08 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: reassign -1 libbrowserlauncher-java
> Control: severity -1 serious
> 
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> ...
>> Please remove libbrowserlauncher-java from Debian. Its features are
>> provided by the JDK nowadays. It is rc-buggy and has no
>> reverse-dependencies.
> 
> Please don't move RC bugs to become RM requests.
> 
> The first effect of your reassign would be testing migration of 
> libbrowserlauncher-java.
> 
> And if the package would have been in (old)stable, moving the RC bug 
> away could have destroyed information about brokenness of the package 
> there that would otherwise have been useful for fixing/removal in (old)stable.
> 

The package is not even part of stable, it has no reverse-dependencies
and removals happen frequently and in a timely manner. That's just a lot
of bureaucracy and makework without real value.

Markus

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