Re: precheck depends before package removal; notification period
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:33:36PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a
> package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify
> maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was
> the case with the disappearance of perlapi-5.6.1.
The perl transition was well-advertised, namely
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0207/msg00014.html. In
general, dependency checking is the function of the testing
distribution; it was manually overridden in this case because the delays
in base packages for the sake of a few optional packages became
unacceptable.
Could you please stop mailing everywhere you can think of and filing
grave bug reports on every package you can think of about this issue? It
is certainly not being ignored, but each package that still depends on
perlapi-5.6.1 in testing needs to be dealt with individually. This
unfortunately takes time, especially when some of those packages'
dependencies (e.g. apt, in the case of apt-file) are themselves having
problems.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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