Re: additional virtual packages for kde
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
>On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 02:41:13PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
[not sure who wrote this, I presume it was Hamish Moffat]
>> > We are still supporting their packages in the sense
>> > that we support their installation. Should any package
>> > reference packages that aren't available in any of Debian's
>> > three distributions (main, non-free, contrib)?
>>
>> people will install them with and without our support. we can make sure,
>> that people can switch to ******our****** packages without problem,
>> or we can let them run into problems. that is not what i want to do.
Agreed.
>
>This could happen with any of our packages. Why does KDE
>deserve special treatment?
Because it is the first time this has arisen? Are there any other
packages distributed by other people as .deb files that will break a
debian system? I'm certainly not aware of any.
The best solution would be to persuade kde to switch to our placement
of files, however they seem unwilling to do so.
The second best solution is therefore to provide a scheme where the
minimum number of people end up with messed up systems. It is my
understanding that Andreas has come up with a workable scheme. I'm not
able to comment on whether Christian has come up with a better method.
I can see no reason to deliberately do something that will cause a
number of systems to break, when we aim to give smooth upgradeability.
If Andreas is willing to put in the effort to do so, then he should be
encouraged to do so.
Chris
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