Debian: contempt for "end user" values has to stop!"

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Michael Banck<mbanck at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:15:51PM +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
>> That's the tile of this blog post[1]. The author makes some excellent
>> points.
>
> Since when do removed-from-the-archive packages get
> removed-from-users-system on an upgrade?

I understand that Update-manager on Ubuntu can remove obsolete
package, usually giving warning first. I think conflicting packages
could also be removed, but I doubt it would have been removed due to a
conflict as the packages installs fine on e.g. Ubuntu 9.04

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted