Re: Last problem with cameleon
En réponse à Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:22:58AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > So we seem to agree on this, which was not my first impression
> > after your previous mail.
>
> I was just asking about the usefulness of the libraries ...
Which is subjective for me:
- on the upstream side, everything he's doing is usefull
- on the maintainer side, not using some parts of a package
does not mean they are useless for users ...
Who's to decide what users don't need? :-)
> > Such case needs to be documented in the policy though.
>
> As said policies are not jails, this case IMO could be considered as
> an
> exception.
> If you like we can anyway add something like "a library package should
> be split only if bla bla bla", but I don't think it's really needed.
I've always seen the policy as a kind of FAQ where you can
find what to do in some corner cases. But I'm not a policy-man :-)
Cheers,
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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
http://marant.org
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