Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?
This one time, at band camp, Branden Robinson wrote:
>Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, Bug #119517 was submitted to the
>Technical Committee for a ruling. No member of the Technical Committe
>has participated in any public discussion of this bug (at least in the
>bug logs or in available messages from the debian-ctte list archives)
>since 2001-12-04, and no apparently discussion of any sort since
>2002-02-26.
As Brian has made it clear[1] that he does not wish to follow either
suggestion made by Dale Scheetz[2] (splitting the package or changing the
Depends:) to ensure all executables supplied in the package run as expected,
IMHO the solution is as Ian Jackson proposed:
|(a) The pcmcia-cs maintainer could choose to make `cardinfo' be a
|script which checked whether the appropriate libraries were present
|and otherwise produced a more helpful error message.
Bugs that turn into political debates are boring.
[1] <20011118210841.D92F6DFB3@ariel.local.net>
[2] <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111181149200.351-100000@dwarf2>
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