why has apt-listbugs been removed the main packages.

[David Curtis]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:45:36 -0700 (PDT)
Timothy Webster <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> OK!
> 
> I have major beef with ubuntu, 
> I rely on apt-listbugs for my testing of upcoming pre-release. It seams ubuntu has removed apt-listbugs from the main package list. This makes so I can NOT safely install pre-releases. Upgrading ubuntu severs is always a dicey afair for me. I NEVER upgrade ubuntu as one shot upgrade. It is risk I simply can not take on servers. 
> 
> NO monitoring launchpad bug list is not an acceptable alternative, to apt-listbugs. 
> 
> I really hope I am wrong and apt-listbugs has not been removed from ubuntu's main package list. I don't mind having egg on my face, as long as apt-listbugs available.
> 
> 
> -tim

According to packages.ubuntu.com, apt-listbugs is available only to LTS releases. So 6.06 and 8.04 have it, the others do not. Perhaps 10.04 will have it.


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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>