Re: Few questions
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >> 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.
> 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?
Because the (o)caml-mode is only a minor functionality of ocaml,
I would say.
-Ralf.
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