Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:27:15AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:On 31-Mar-04, 08:16 (CST), Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@mbrix.dk> wrote:
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Many old packages in Debian, have conflicts for specific version of packages that are pre-potato. Would it then be OK to submit a minor bug and tell the maintainer that the conflict could be removed?
Why? What harm is it doing?
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It degrades the readability of the dependency relationships, and distracts the maintainer from the important ones.
Precisely. The core problem in software engineering is control of complexity. If, as may be the case here, we can reduce complexity without sacrificing other useful qualities, it is good to do that.
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