RE: When does a conflict become outdated?
Steve Greenland wrote:
> Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@mbrix.dk> wrote:
> > 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" [...]
No, it's about complexity. Complexity that is not needed any more.
> And if you're going chase down obsolete conflicts, then you should also
> chase down all the parts of {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts that handle
> upgrades from ancient versions, etc.
Yes, that would be a good thing. Such upgrade functionality should be
created in a modular fashion anyway so as to simplify adding to and
removing from it.
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