Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of "install" pseudo-package
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:34:11AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:56:47PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > So, could you please remove the "install" and "installation"
> > pseudo-packages, and change the description of the "boot-floppy"
> > pseudo-package to read something like 'Installation system in Debian 3.0
> > and earlier releases'? (Actually, I'm not sure why "boot-floppy" exists
> > either, but I guess it catches some typoes ...)
>
> boot-floppy, cdrom, install and installation were all added to accomplish
> the same thing -- catch more bugs against the installation procedure as they
> came in, without relying on unknown-package. They are orthogonal to whatever
> we call the installation system.
However, they appear to be confusing the installation system developers,
which seems counterproductive.
Are there any other suggestions? (I'd be open to hacking up something
like automatic package name redirects in debbugs; there's an outstanding
request for that anyway.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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