Bug#946046: not fixed

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 08/08/2020 à 03:25, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> The wontfix does not make any sense. The unison-all package is
> described as follows:
> 
> Description: file synchronization tool (all console versions)
>  This is a metapackage that depends on all supported console versions
>  of Unison, a file synchronization tool.
>  .
>  Each of the supported versions uses a different protocol version;
>  installing this metapackage ensures the ability to synchronize with
>  old systems.
> 
> See the latest sentence. That's the *only* purpose of the unison-all
> metapackage.

Ah right, the "ability to synchronize with old systems" is not correct
and never will be. For me, the purpose of unison-all is just to have all
supported versions. For now, there is only one, but there could be many.

I accept this bug as an error in the description. Severity serious for
this seems overreacted, don't you think?

> So, either you are able to fix the issue in some way via unison-all
> (I can see only a rather ugly solution, though the end user would
> not see the ugly part), or the issue cannot be fixed in a clean way,
> and the unison-all package should just be removed from Debian as
> being broken by design (co-instability of the stable versions and the
> unstable version should be sufficient, without needing unison-all),
> which is probably the easiest was to fix this bug.

So you think that having a metapackage just to install all supported
versions is useless? Or even misleading? Then, I will remove unison-all
and unison-all-gtk.

Thank you for your feedback!


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane