Bug#484333: assigning to tech ctte (Re: status of this bug)
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:25:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 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).
The release notes can trivially deal with this by suggesting (as they
currently do!) that users use aptitude, which even in etch, handles
Recommends: properly. They can also mention this specific problem, and
handle the general class of problems where packages have been demoted
to Recommends and/or split.
Making bash-completion a dependency of bash obviates one of the
important advantages of splitting out bash-completion: the ability to
not have bash-completion installed.
I suggest reassigning this bug to release notes with the following
suggested verbiage:
If you use apt-get to upgrade to lenny, you should first upgrade apt
to the version in lenny, and then complete the upgrade to lenny
using that version. The version of apt in lenny properly handles
packages which have been split, with significant features only
Recommended: by the unsplit packages.
Don Armstrong
--
The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
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