Re: how to split packages
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:45:17PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Domenico Andreoli <cavok@filibusta.crema.unimi.it> cum veritate scripsit:
>
> > yes. if i change a package and other depending on it suddenly break,
> > those should be fixed. not the first.
>
> Please be real. Read debian-bugs-dist for a change.
>
i periodically subscribe to it, but its traffic is very high...
> And really, "please make package foo installable without installing
> the whole tetex" is not worth breaking 50 packages, IMNSHO,
> hence my suggestion.
>
if you say "don't break them all because we are in freeze" i second
you. but they *are* broken, they rely on something that severely changed
and then they should be fixed in next releases.
the day that i have to split foo-core should i make packages named
foo-core-core and foo-core-extra?
things break only if you are not installing what Recommends says.
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