packages removed from Debian are not always removed from Ubuntu

[Dick Davies]

On 09/08/06, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that many packages which were removed from Debian are not
> removed from Ubuntu. Is somebody working on this specific task ?
>
> Example source packages are kmatplot, gtk-smooth-engine, kgeography
>
> If Debian removed them, it probably had a very good reason to do so, and
> we probably want to do the same.

Debian remove packages for political/licensing reasons. It doesn't follow
Ubuntu will always take the same stance (fortunately).

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