Bug#269961: Reintroduce doc++ to sarge, Build-Depends for other packages

[James Troup]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:20:56AM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote:
>> It would appear that doc++ was incorrectly removed from both testing and 
>> unstable as it was thought that it was obsoleted by a Java documentation 
>> package, however doc++ was also an important Build-Depends for a number of 
>> packages in sarge (See #265273 for history):
>
>>   dancer-xml
>>   dlisp
>>   dmachinemon
>>   fwbuilder
>>   libdshconfig
>>   libfwbuilder
>>   openh323
>>   pwlib
>
>> I have prepared a NMU of doc++ (from snapshot.debian.net), loaded into 
>> incoming and would request that it be processed though the queue quickly and 
>> be replaced back into sarge.
>
> Actually, someone else already beat you to NMUing, but it is sitting in
> the NEW queue nevertheless.
>
> It just needs to have an ftpmaster approve it.

Guys you can't NMU a removed package back into the archive - someone
needs to take it over.

Don't re-upload it with the old Maintainer field.  The previous
maintainer explicitly requested it be removed, clearly doesn't want
responsibility for it and that can't be forced on them.

-- 
James