assigning to tech ctte (Re: status of this bug)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

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Dear Technical Committee,

Could you resolve this dispute?  Matthias has indicated that he disagrees by
adding the "wontfix" tag, but hasn't explained why (I expect he will now).

Notice that this problem only affects the etch->lenny transition.  Please
treat this urgently enough so that the change can be applied in time in case
you decide it ought to.

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:25:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> To summarize what the current status of this bug is:
> 
>   - Users who install etch get bash completion as part of the default install
>     (as part of bash package).
> 
>   - Users who install lenny get bash completion as part of the default install
>     (via bash-completion package which is installed by tasksel).
> 
>   - Users who install etch and upgrade to lenny would preserve bash-completion
>     functionality because of the Recommends in bash, _but_ apt in etch doesn't
>     follow Recommends yet, so this only applies if they update apt first.
> 
> I think this shows clearly there's an unresolved transition here.  I understand
> bash-completion shouldn't be Essential, but the process for moving it out isn't
> being done properly.  It's not acceptable that end users get this functionality
> silently disabled without any obvious explanation (they might not even know
> which package provides it, or how).
> 
> My proposal is that in lenny, bash Depends on bash-completion, and for lenny+1
> it moves it back to Recommends.
> 
> Matthias, if you still have an objection to this approach, please bring it up.

-- 
Robert Millan

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