Am Samstag 01 November 2008 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
Hi,
Stephan Kulow schrieb:
Dropping packages (from distro and from DVD) is our daily business. RealPlayer might be different - but I have no idea in what way.
RealPlayer is not really different but it shows once again that the process of dropping packages from the distribution is not transparent enough to the community. Usually package drops are not really announced in public and one has to stumble about it and then starts the discussion about the why. I know that the reasons for dropping packages are recorded internally but why isn't that public accessible data?
Moving that package database to the outside is basically the only missing piece for the "distribution building in the open" project. It's been worked on, but currently there are more important issues ;( But here is the list of packages that were on the 11.0 DVD and that aren't on the 11.1-B4 DVD (or the nonoss addon). Perhaps you find some more interesting, or even bugs. But note that we dropped quite some for space reasons or just due to renames. Greetings, Stephan