Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 19:45, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > Hereby I propose to solve this problem by creating a new dummy package
> > called "utf8" that just conflicts with software broken in UTF-8 locales.
> > Also the "locales" package should tell the user that the "utf8" package
> > exists.
>
> Or package tags. But your idea is workable, it is just that it ain't
> anywhere close to nice to maintain (as the "task packages" proved).
I am not familiar with tags. What will happen if I type: apt-get install mc ?
> > The solution above is, however, highly suboptimal. If you know any way to
> > set up things so that I don't even _see_ broken software as available in
> > kpackage or other apt frontends, please share your thoughts.
>
> You can probably work with package tags to do so after some configuration
> to tag-based aptitude, I think. As long as that config ain't the default,
> there is no problem.
It would still be nice if the "locales" package asked the question (via
debconf) whether I want to reconfigure my system that way.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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