Re: removing etch transitional packages
"Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz> writes:
> Also I have a question - what should I do in cases like this one:
>
> xlibmesa-glu should be removed, however libopengl-ruby depends on it
> this way: "xlibmesa-gl | libgl1". Should I file a bug report against
> libopengl-ruby to remove the dependency? Or is it ok,
> because it depends either on xlibmesa-gl or on libgl1.
I think it's okay to just remove the transitional package. Having the
dependency which is satisfied by older packages is conceivably useful on a
mixed-release system.
ssh-krb5 is a similar case; I think that one is safe to remove.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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