Bug#235525: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Relax priority relations between packages (Policy 2.5)
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:57:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:01:35PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > After the discussion started in
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2003/debian-policy-200312/msg00020.html,
> > I'd now like to formally suggest changing policy.
>
> This is a bad recommendation, desirable only because exim4 isn't packaged
> properly.
We disagree here. But that's a well-known fact.
> If exim4-config doesn't need exim4 installed to
> be usefully functional, it doesn't need to conflict with other m-t-a's,
> if it does need exim4 installed it should be using a dependency.
Using a dependency doesn't work since our tools don't properly handle
circular dependencies.
> > The original wording is a legacy from the times when we didn't have
> > packaging tools as sophisticated as apt
>
> This isn't the case.
Please give an example why the original wording is still the proper
thing to do.
Greetings
Marc
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