Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
Ian> Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?"):
>> I think everyone agrees that it's a Bad Thing to have packages
>> like this, the question is really whether it's completely
>> unacceptable to ever do it, or if having packages with a single
>> fairly trivial binary and different depends: is enough to justify
>> it.
If it is a Bad Thing, and we are trying to make the best
distribution of Linux, does it not follow we consider this a bug, and
try to fix it?
Ian> Indeed. I think that this kind of tradeoff between different
Ian> kinds of costs is best left to the package maintainer.
Unfortunately, unless this determination matches the one the
users make, we have an issue. If the user thinks the program is
broken, they shall report a bug. If it is summarily closed with
essentially the statement "I do not agree", the result is frustating
to the suer, who sees this as a flaw in the implementation (and we
are all agreed it is a Bad Thing), and every such incident thwarts
ones desires to report bugs.
The BTS, and determinati0on of what is broken, do not exist in
a vacuum.
manoj
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