Re: Proposing task-debian

[Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>]

Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> From my poor memory, the "generally agreed best idea" is to setup two
> packages, vaguely like this:
> 
> Package name: task-abc
> Conflicts: task-abc-remove
> Depends: abc, bcd, cde, def
> 
> Package name: task-abc-remove
> Conflicts: task-abc, abc, bcd, cde, def

Please, NO! This is a pretty ugly hack and there are better ways to do
this, e.g. the debfoster aproach. I don't agree at all with you that
this is the "generally agreed best idea". Rather the opposite. 

Roland

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Roland Bauerschmidt