Bug#539019: removal of libmd5-perl

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ansgar Burchardt, Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:16:00PM +0900 |=-
> I was wondering what the best way to proceed with the removal of the
> long-deprecated libmd5-perl module is.
> 
> In July I opened several bug reports for packages still depending on
> libmd5-perl of which about half have been resolved.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> What is the best way to proceed?  I would increase the severity of the
> bug reports for packages depending on or recommending libmd5-perl to
> important with a note that we will soon ask for removal of libmd5-perl.
> After two weeks, we could ask for removal of libmd5-perl from unstable
> and then raise the severity to serious as the packages would no longer
> be installable or violate policy (recommending a package not in main).

Sounds good. I think that NMUs can be used to close the upgraded bugs 
after some additional time (two weeks seems to be the universal unit). 
After these NMUs land in the archive, the removal request should be 
processed without problems.

Thank you for taking care of this.

-- 
dam
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