Re: Bug#569219: Document transitional and meta-packages

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

tags 569219 - patch
thanks

On 25/02/10 at 11:23 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> 
> > Package: developers-reference
> > Version: 3.4.3
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > We have several meta-packages and transitional packages in the archive, some of them do not document that anywhere in their description.
> > 
> > Users should be given such an information, so they can decide to remove some to save disk space and to remove useless packages from the system.
> > 
> > I propose to clearly state a package is a meta-package or a transitioanl package in the long description. This is a common practice already.
> 
> 
> For the purpose of removing useless packages, I would propose that
> transitional packages are always "priority: extra" and "section: oldlibs".
> 
> That would make deborphan to mark them as "packages that may be removed".

Right. Could someone update the patch?

Thanks

- Lucas