Re: Let's CENSOR it! (was: Uploaded anarchism 7.5-1 (source all) to master)
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 11:39:14AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I have not seen a better solution than the dummy packages, so, as of
> > today, there is no better solution.
>
> Since the xbase empty package already exists, users who want a clean
> system already have to enter dselect selections, find it, and remove
> it. And while they're there, they might as well remove xfnt* and install
> xfonts-*. The need for manual intervention is already present, so it
> doesn't matter much.
I disagree. This is like saying: Since the upgrade is not clean, we should
not try to make it cleaner.
After an upgrade, having "obsolete" but useful packages in the system
(like hamm's xfnt100) is worse than having empty compatibility packages
which may be removed at any time without any side effect (the same xfnt100
as a dummy package).
> BTW it is all over now since slink is released.
We could use point releases (i.e. Debian 2.1rX) to fix all the bugs
regarding the upgrade process. If bugs regarding the upgrade do not delay
the release (i.e. they are not considered as "severity: important"), then
we should at least fix them in some point release. IMHO.
[ Or else maybe we should reconsider and treat every bug regarding the
upgrade which has a known fix as severity: important ].
Thanks.
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