[Vm-dev] Fwd: squeak-vm is marked for autoremoval from testing

[David T. Lewis]

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


> 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > From: Debian testing autoremoval watch <noreply at release.debian.org>
> > Subject: squeak-vm is marked for autoremoval from testing
> > Date: 21. Juni 2018 um 06:40:01 MESZ
> > To: squeak-vm at packages.debian.org
> > Delivered-To: tobias+squeak at netshed.de
> > Delivered-To: squeak-vm_summary at packages.qa.debian.org
> > Delivered-To: dispatch+squeak-vm_summary at 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 at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > 
> > 
>