Re: Few questions

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:48:32AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> >> 1/ it is called caml-mode in sources since it applies to caml light
> >>    as well. Shall I keep calling it caml-mode or ocaml-mode?
> >
> > The package should be ocaml-mode, the files inside can be caml-mode though. 
> 
> OK.
> 
> >> 2/ this new package depends on ocaml-nox, and ocaml-nox needs to
> >>    depend on it until etch is released (for transitional purpose),
> >>    which makes a circular dependency. Is this a problem?
> >
> > Nope, we don't care about transitional purpose, if people want it, they can
> > install it by hand, most people probably just don't care.
> >
> > Also, having a depend, recomend or suggest just breaks the whole purpose of
> > moving it apart, and having a depend will have emacs continue break ocaml at
> > random times. ocaml doesn't really depend on emacs, maybe a suggest would be
> > it, apart that new apt-like tools auto-install suggests, so ...
> 
> But usually in Debian, we try not to remove something from a package
> like this.

Yeah, but the emacs mode of ocaml is hardly something vital, and as Ralf
mentioned, most people use the tuareg mode, so we can perfectly do it this
way.

> For example, when dselect has been shipped outside dpkg, dpkg still
> depended on it until the next debian release in order not for the
> people to see it mysteriously vanish.
> 
> Why wouldn't we follow the same guidelines?

You are seriously comparing the ocaml emacs mode with dselect ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther