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Re: Bug#307833: Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed



On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:35:02AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the
> maintainer's lack of engagement.  There seem to be a lot of people who
> are interested in helping maintain this package.

> Would any of the keen people we see involved in this bug report
> consider contesting the maintainership of the package ?  The Committee
> has the power in s6.1(2) of the Constitution to
>   Decide ... who should be the maintainer for a package
> but of course only when developers disagree.

> Jesus, you write to Sebastien:
>   In a previous conversation with me you pointed out that there are
>   others downloaders that a user can decide to select, but failing to
>   depend on at least one of the ones provided as a package by Debian
>   renders the package unusable. Which is not acceptable.
> Can we see that conversation ?  Are the emails archived anywhere ?

> The control file at the moment says:
>   Recommends: curl, wget
> which is definitely wrong since at most one of these is used.

> Sebastien, what is your opinion of Mike O'Connor's patch ?

I understand that this bug has been (silently) fixed in the latest version
of apt-file.  Any objections to reassigning the bug back to apt-file and
closing this issue out?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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