Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive
In Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400 Norbert cum veritate scripsit :
> Why are such things allowed into the archive? Will these things ever
> even
> make it into testing given that they are uninstallable?
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.6 | stable | all
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 | testing | all
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 | unstable | all
> IMHO. this is a completelly wrong way of going about this. These
> packages
> contain data used by other packages. This is not uncommon, many
> packages
> have a -common or -data package to go with them. This is a special case
> because the data is in the format of a .deb. I suggest then that
> diskless-image-simple and friends should be packages that contain the
> .deb
> files. Ie. there is no reason one cannot have a harmless
> diskless-image-simple that contains another .deb as data. This second
> .deb
> can then be used by the diskless package to setup its chroot.
Good. Send me a patch.
I will apply it.
regards,
junichi
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