Note that squeak-vm on debian is going to go away…
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From: Debian testing autoremoval watch noreply@release.debian.org Subject: squeak-vm is marked for autoremoval from testing Date: 21. Juni 2018 um 06:40:01 MESZ To: squeak-vm@packages.debian.org Delivered-To: tobias+squeak@netshed.de Delivered-To: squeak-vm_summary@packages.qa.debian.org Delivered-To: dispatch+squeak-vm_summary@tracker.debian.org
squeak-vm 1:4.10.2.2614-4.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2018-07-16
It is affected by these RC bugs: 899694: squeak-vm: Invalid maintainer address pkg-squeak-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
Note that squeak-vm on debian is going to go away???
Sorry to say it, but this is probably a good thing. The Debian distribution was an obsolete and modified branch of the classic interpreter VM, and it has been broken for years. The intentions were good, but it is not helpful to have a badly broken VM distributed under the Squeak name.
Dave
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From: Debian testing autoremoval watch noreply@release.debian.org Subject: squeak-vm is marked for autoremoval from testing Date: 21. Juni 2018 um 06:40:01 MESZ To: squeak-vm@packages.debian.org Delivered-To: tobias+squeak@netshed.de Delivered-To: squeak-vm_summary@packages.qa.debian.org Delivered-To: dispatch+squeak-vm_summary@tracker.debian.org
squeak-vm 1:4.10.2.2614-4.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2018-07-16
It is affected by these RC bugs: 899694: squeak-vm: Invalid maintainer address pkg-squeak-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
On 21.06.2018, at 14:05, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
Note that squeak-vm on debian is going to go away???
Sorry to say it, but this is probably a good thing. The Debian distribution was an obsolete and modified branch of the classic interpreter VM, and it has been broken for years. The intentions were good, but it is not helpful to have a badly broken VM distributed under the Squeak name.
Understood. just wanted to make sure y'all know. -t
Dave
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From: Debian testing autoremoval watch noreply@release.debian.org Subject: squeak-vm is marked for autoremoval from testing Date: 21. Juni 2018 um 06:40:01 MESZ To: squeak-vm@packages.debian.org Delivered-To: tobias+squeak@netshed.de Delivered-To: squeak-vm_summary@packages.qa.debian.org Delivered-To: dispatch+squeak-vm_summary@tracker.debian.org
squeak-vm 1:4.10.2.2614-4.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2018-07-16
It is affected by these RC bugs: 899694: squeak-vm: Invalid maintainer address pkg-squeak-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
vm-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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Tobias Pape