On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:58:09AM +0100, Björn Stenberg wrote: > > I find this report even more irritating: > > <http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=ginac> > > There it claims: "Updating ginac makes 1 packages uninstallable on alpha: > > ginac". Huh?!? Now it's talking about uninstallable source packages!?! > Yeah, that's a feature. The list of uninstallable packages can grow > very long when all binaries are listed, making it hard to see which > source packages are having problems. Someone asked me to filter the > list and just show the source packages, so that's what the script > currently does. This seems like an unfortunate regression to me; in a case where only one binary package is made uninstallable, and this binary package comes from a source package that produces dozens of binary packages, surely it would be better to say which binaries in particular are uninstallable? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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