Re: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority
- To: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
- Cc: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 758234@bugs.debian.org, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, ftpmaster@debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority
- From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:41:12 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 8737akdsrr.fsf@delenn.ganneff.de>
- Mail-followup-to: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 758234@bugs.debian.org, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, ftpmaster@debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20170628111331.GA10427@fatal.se> (Andreas Henriksson's message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:13:31 +0200")
- References: <53EE329C.1090505@debian.org> <20170620105515.GA14646@fatal.se> <20170620111633.GE10553@yellowpig> <20170620113604.GA14937@fatal.se> <874lva3844.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> <[🔎] 87shiuuxon.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org> <[🔎] 871sq7adbr.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> <[🔎] 20170628111331.GA10427@fatal.se>
On 14717 March 1977, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it
> as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as
> deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people
> mass-bug-filing RC-bugs for all current extra packages.
As soon as this is more than just a discussion but gets reality, we will
ensure there *IS* no more extra package with a mass override change...
--
bye, Joerg
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