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Bug#682347: mark 'editor' virtual package name as obsolete



On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think there are three options, and I'd love to get feedback on which of
> those three options we should take.
> 
> 1. Status quo: there is an undocumented editor virtual package, Policy
>    says that nothing has to provide or depend on it, and some random
>    collection of editors provide it.  I think this is a bad place to be,
>    so I would hope we can rule out sticking with that status quo.
> 
> 2. Document editor and recommend everyone implement it properly.  Since
>    we're going to allow packages to depend on editor, I think providing it
>    would need to be a should, so that's going to be a lot of buggy (but
>    not RC-buggy) editor packages.  But it would get us to a clean
>    dependency system. 
> 
> 3. Mark editor obsolete.

looking at these three options for "for doing the best solution" I
think we should go for 2 or maybe 3, but then I think it's a sensible
thing to depend on, so I would say we should go with option 2.

I"m also very fine with this resulting in some trivial bugs being filed.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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