[Bug 1660216] Re: Package is obsolete and should be removed

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Mon Apr 3 17:13:51 UTC 2017


ok, opened a task on apt-xapian-index so that this can be dealt with
first before removal.

> Incidentally, please note that although launchpad lists me as "maintainer"
> of this package, I had nothing to do with creating it - I guess I'm listed
> there as it was forked from a package I maintain in Debian, and
> someone was too slack to update the metadata properly.

Apologies; there is a policy for maintainer fields in Ubuntu,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField, which was definitely not
followed here.  It looks like the correct solution in this case is to
just remove the package.

** Also affects: apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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