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Re: Bug#240665: [PROPOSAL] require depending on split-off packages



On Sunday 28 March 2004 18.31, Andreas Barth wrote:

> If some functionality is moved from one package to another (also at
> splitting off a package), the first one must depend on the second for
> the time of at least one stable release. By this, no functionality is
> removed on dist-upgrade.

Please consider also the case where the functionality is not moved to a new 
package, but to an existing other one (say, foo and foo-bar, and now some 
thing moved from foo to foo-bar). Suddenly, foo would be required to depend 
on foo-bar - with annoying results when foo-bar itself depends on a whole lot 
of stuff some people might not want installed on their system (gnome or x 
libs, python/ocaml/ruby/whatever runtime, ...)

Yes, this is a hypothetical example.

cheers
-- vbi

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