Re: When does a conflict become outdated?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:27:15AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 31-Mar-04, 08:16 (CST), Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@mbrix.dk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Many old packages in Debian, have conflicts for specific version of
> > packages that are pre-potato. Would it then be OK to submit a minor bug
> > and tell the maintainer that the conflict could be removed?
>
> Why? What harm is it doing? And don't say "bloat": the space taken by
> all the outdated conflicts combined could be easily compensated for
> by removing, say one IRC client. Or one editor. Or one module from
> xscreensaver.
It degrades the readability of the dependency relationships, and distracts
the maintainer from the important ones.
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- mdz
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