On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:43:21PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ansgar Burchardt > > > My starting point is the following principle: > > > * Users should not be switched automatically when upgrading. > > [...] > > > Having settled on the above principle, I think it follows that the > > > dependency ought to be changed. > > Except that we have not settled on that principle. So using it as a > > reason for other changes is not a very convincing argument. > In fact, there was absolutely no objections to switching by default when > discussed on -devel more than two months ago, so I think it's pretty > well established that for the first time this century (approximately), > there has been something resembling consensus on debian-devel. Those objections happen to have not been re-raised in response to the specific (sub-)thread where switching the default was proposed. But Russ and others have said they don't want this done automatically on upgrade without notification to the user. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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