On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 16:22 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > The reason is that some other applications we have depend upon the > > framework, but don't use the preferences system. IMHO a good enough reason for a package split. No other explanation is necessary in my book. > Well, I understand the purpose, but from a Debian point of view, this > package is useless and should be merged. I disagree. This is a functional package split - the kind of thing that needs to be encouraged in Debian to allow choice. Why should the package provide a preference system on all installations when it is perfectly usable without it and some other mechanism can be used. This sounds perfect for Recommends: to me - most will probably use it but allow for some that have specialized needs. > I understand that this will > imply more work for your internal work since you will have to continue > to maintain privately separate packages. That, IMHO, is a crazy request. -- Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>
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