Re: Bug#91249: PROPOSED] bring X support policy into line with must/should/may usage

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Branden Robinson schrieb:
> * the part of a package with X-specific components must have a priority no
>   higher than the packages on which it depends (including any X packages);
> * an X-dependent alternative version of a package must have a priority no
>   higher than the packages on which it depends (including any X packages).

Now if only apt could automatically install the
X11-enabled/dependent parts if X11 is installed.

Or *-<subarch> packages where available and appropriate (even in
the face of the current libc issues ...).

More such cases are *-<desktop_environment>, *-<language>,
*-<sound_output_method> and so on.

<braindump>
Well, the "Enhances" dependency header exists, but the packaging
tools don't seem to use it.

It would be a _giant_ leap forward if we found some more or less
automatic way to act on these fields, admittedly that's pretty
hard because of the "fuzzy" nature of those dependencies (and
the size of the graph that would result if one read all
dependency info for all packages).
</braindump>

ciao, 2ri
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