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



Hey there,

Sorry, I was on offline vacation until now. :)

El dt 26 de 12 de 2017 a les 15:24 +0000, en/na Holger Levsen va
escriure:
> 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 personally would go with 2 as well, even if there's some trivial work
to do to get all editors to adapt. I think the editor virtual package
adds some value and completing coverage of all package should be easy
and completion can be encouraged via a release goal or something
similar.

Let me know what the outcome is and I'll adapt nano right away.

Jordi
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