Debian packages for some webmin modules removed from repositories?
I recently noticed that some of the webmin modules for Debian including webmin-apache, webmin-samba, webmin-mysql etc. have been removed from the repositories.
I installed this before, but now these packages are listed under "Local/Obsolete" packages in Synaptic. By the way, I use "testing" repositories. Anybody knows why these webmin packages have been removed? |
According to the information link about repositories at http://www.debian.org, testing packages are for prelease versions of the next release of a Debian O/S. These packages stay in "testing" mode until they are approved and then at that time they are removed from the list and put into the "frozen" category.
EDIT: Once they are in this "frozen" status, they are removed from the "testing" repositories. |
But I want to continue using "testing" repositories. Will these packages get re-added to the repositories when the next version gets released?
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Website about missing packages in testing...webmin-mysql
Because the Debian Release team is preparing for a freeze (stage needed before a release) a lot of packages with release-critical bugs or packages depending on release-critical bugs are removed from testing. The offenders seems to be Wvdial and webmin-firewall. The maintainers are probably working on a solution and it might re-enter testing in time. Till that time... read about apt-pinning and include a sid repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list |
Thanks psilo. I think that after the next version gets released the packages will be re-added to the repositories.
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They're back! For whatever reason they were removed and now, after a long wait, these packages are back. I did an upgrade today.
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