Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

>> I might also add at the end:
>
>>   In such situations, the depended-on package should perform an equivalent
>>   clean-up operation if it's the first package to be removed or purged.
>
>> But that may not be unambiguous enough to add any value here and I can't
>> be bothered to further tune the language right now; I don't think that's
>> a blocker and this bug has run quite long enough already.
>
> I'm going to bail on that because of the length of the bug

Reasonable.  When making a suggestion for a new normative requirement
like that, I probably should have just filed a new (low-severity)
policy bug.

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> Does that look okay?

Yes, that is much clearer.

Thanks again, and sorry to nitpick so.