Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
>>On 30-05-2005 10:17, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I realize that debian-edu-config is something of a special case, because of
>>>its narrow application.  I don't think that Debian-Edu should get a free
>>>pass for violating policy, but I also don't think that there's much risk of
>>>this issue affecting people who aren't installing debian-edu explicitly, so
>>>it doesn't seem to make much difference to their net experience whether
>>>deiban-edu-config is allowed in sarge or not.  So unless someone else on the
>>>release team objects, I think I'm going to tag this bug sarge-ignore.
> 
> 
>>So for the upgrade path from sarge to etch you want maybe 30+ quite
>>popular packages to weed out bugreports caused by chain-reactions of
>>installing this package?
> 
> 
> How does including the package in sarge make any difference to the number of
> bugs (mis-)reported against these other packages?  The Skolelinux users are
> still going to be installing it and modifying these conffiles; people who
> are not Skolelinux users are still not going to.
> 
> 
>>I agree that debian-edu is a special case, but don't see your point in
>>that being a good excuse for ignoring policy: Debian-edu-* packages are
>>expected only to be useful in the Skolelinux Debian-derived
>>distribution. It is a goal of debian-edu to be able to create Skolelinux
>>solely from officially released Debian packages but that goal is not yet
>>reached so a few more packages having to be added unofficially shouldn't
>>be a big deal.
> 
> 
> What other packages does Skolelinux depend on for sarge that are not in
> Debian?

ltsp
j2re1.4


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Finn-Arne Johansen
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Debian-edu developer