Re: rmail, m-t-a, and uucp

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:02:53 +0100, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> said: 

> So if sendmail provided a rmail executable, upgrading to sarge
> should not removing it silently.

	Contrast this with dpkg, which correctly depends on dselect
 after splitting it out -- and is committed to do so until after the
 next release.

> As far as I know, policy say nothing about the upgrade process
> between two releases, but notwithstanding we are commited to provide
> trouble-free upgrade between stable releases.

	Sounds like silently splitting a package like that is a bug --
 in which case, why do we need policy to tell us not to make buggy
 packages?

	manoj
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