Re: Playing with dpkg's mind
I also got confused reading about your intentions. If you are confusing
the developers the users will likely be even more confused :) I've played
So Far a bit and wouldn't like to see it go out of the distribution. So
it doesn't have source, in this case who cares, things work fine how they
are from user perspective. If it takes extreme contortions to fix better
to leave it 'broken' in this case I think.
Of course, if there is some straightforward way to make it policy
complient that would be good. The bug doesn't say how it fails to meet
policy.
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 07-Nov-2001 Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to move the various interactive fiction games from their own
> > packages to management by a common "installer" package. See #107245
> > and related bugs. The installer package will own the various games;
> > any transition packages must end up not containing the respective game
> > file so that the transition package can be safely removed without
> > purging the game file as well.
> >
> > I came up with various solutions and can't decide on either one.
> > Someone give me a clue?
> >
>
> I am a little confused. In the bug you state your intention is to simply offer
> a downloader that will retrieve the games. So why all of the dpkg confusion
> here? Seems mucking with dpkg's files is a BAD idea. Truth is any solution is
> going to lead to a little user confusion. I see debconf in your future.
>
> Why not do this a simple way? Upload packages of the same name without the
> games in it. Then the installer package can handle it from there. Although I
> wonder why we even need an installer package since downloading these amounts to
> browsing an ftp archive and grabbing one or two files. Perhaps we should just
> remove the packages and forget about it. Not all problems need an engineering
> solution.
>
>
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