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Re: packaging pine



Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:38:33PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I had a different motive than the problem at hand for asking
> > that question.  My junior-* packages now all Suggest: task-junior which,
> > of course, now no longer exists.  But I think I won't bother doing
> > anything about it until after woody releases, unless people feel that is
> > an unspeakably horrible, sloppy thing to do.  I just don't see the point
> > in making unnecessary uploads at this point (especially of things which
> > affect task packages, which are supposed to be frozen right now).
> 
> I would say leave it.  I don't think that any of the package UIs do anything
> nasty if they can't find a suggested package.

At worst, I think dselect will declare a dependency issue, display a
screen listing the package and the things it suggests, and complain that
the suggested package is not available. Mildly annoying, but survivable.

Craig



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