Re: Outrageous Maintainer
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't have
> > users with it installed since it was present there so, IMHO, the
> > Conflict is need.
>
> The bug is in the other package, packages are not required to work
> around other bugs in other packages, that'd be a gigantic mess of
> workarounds.
There'll be lots of workarounds, but that doesn't necessarily equate to
'a mess'.
> If dash breaks using my package for whatever reason, I'm not going to
> add a conflict: dash (with non-fixed version or whatever), dash needs
> to fix it.
True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make
it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another package
that completely breaks mine (rather than the entire system), usually I
do add the conflicts: header.
> Ditto here, and the fix is removing the package.
... which would be accomplished by adding the Conflicts: header. I don't
see the problem.
That being said, of course the choice is up to the maintainer; I'm not
going to tell you (or him) what to do :-)
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