Re: Bug#174410: questionable interpretation of "install" pseudo-package
[removing ftpmaster@; they'll be getting this via the BTS anyway]
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.
It's also worth remembering that all of the above predate
unknown-package by some years. Nowadays we do at least have a mechanism
for catching bug reports against unknown packages (although I see it
needs a bit of a cleanup again, but it's not half as bad as it used to
be).
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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