Bug#376135: closed by Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net> (Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#376135: xfce4-systray: uninstallable in sid)

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:25:23PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:01:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:33:57AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> 
> > Why not keep this bug open until the package is actually removed ? 
> > At least it let people know about the problem and the fix. 
> 
> If they didn't get the hint from the Conflicts:/Replaces: on xfce4-panel
> is there really much hope that they'll check bugs.d.o ? ;)
> 
> I'm not really bothered either way to be honest.  I think a better thing
> would be for the BTS to report ftp.d.o bugs on the package pages as well
> and will file a bug for that.

I wonder if such bug could not be assigned to "ftp.debian.org, xfce4-systray".

> Can I ask why you wanted it installed or how you got into a situation
> where your apt frontend tried to install it?

I did not do that. I looked at the testing propagation stats and saw
that xfce4-systray was not moving to testing without apparent reason (no
RC bug, no missing binary etc.) so I investigated and filled this report.

Now, I am not very experimented with checking testing propagation, but
certainly if packages that _must not_ move to testing all carried a
RC bug, it would be much easier to spot packages needing "hints", and
it is always smarter to allow less experimented people to deal with the
system.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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