On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> But usually in Debian, we try not to remove something from a package
> like this.
> 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?
Well, the current situation (with emacs mode shipped inside ocaml-nox)
is not correct: I see no reason why a user installing a compiler for a
language would expect to get installed the corresponding emacs mode. If
she want it she should ask for it installing a separate package.
We are simply fixing the current misbehaviour. A note in NEWS.Debian is
enough for transition purposes IMHO.
Cheers.
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