[Bug 672212] Re: please remove revtex from the archive

[Felix Geyer]

MOTU ack.

** Changed in: revtex (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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please remove revtex from the archive
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Status in “revtex” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “revtex” package in Debian: Unknown

Bug description:
Binary package hint: revtex

Removed from Debian a little over a month ago, here's the message from Debian:

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff 
To: Debian Bug Tracking System 
Subject: RM: revtex -- RoQA; obsolete, unused
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:22:11 +0200

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Please remove revtex:

Orphaned since a year, last maintainer upload in 2002

Even in 2002 the package has already been declared obsolete:

> This package is now obsolete, REVTeX 4, provided by
> the package tetex-extra should be used instead. This package is kept
> in order to provide backward compatibility (for older documents
> prepared with REVTeX 3.1 rather than REVTeX 4).

Cheers,
        Moritz

From: Debian FTP Masters
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

    revtex |     3.1-13 | source, all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; obsolete, unused
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