Debian packages for some webmin modules removed from repositories?
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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.
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
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