Bug#240665: [PROPOSAL] require depending on split-off packages
* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [040329 07:25]:
> To take as an example the package split that prompted this proposal: the
> sendmail package recently split off the rmail binary into a separate
> package. Now, AIUI, rmail is useful to a very small subset of users;
> specifically, to those using uucp. As it happens, the bug report
> against sendmail complaining about this split came through the uucp
> maintainer.
>
> But uucp did not depend on sendmail at all, it only declared a
> dependency on mail-transport-agent [...]
The reason for this proposal was not about making it easier for the
uucp-Package. But please just consider the other way: Some user have
today uucp and sendmail installed, and then dist-upgrade sendmail to
the version in sarge. Then this user will loose the ability to receive
mails, without any hint why and what he should do. _This_ is what bugs
me, not to make the depends-line of uucp shorter.
Cheers,
Andi
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