On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:37:26AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > [ moving to -release ] > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > After reading a point made by Steve Langasek in debian-release [1] I was > > wondering if it would be appropiate to list of things 'TODO' after an > > upgrade, specially: > > " > > - Remove dummy packages, you don't need them any longer. For a full list, > > check the Appendix. > > - Check if you have other packages you don't need using the 'deborphan' > > tool. > I think an appendix for dummy packages would be a waste of space. > Is there a special reason why we can't put all dummy packages in the > oldlibs section to begin with, so that they are listed by deborphan > automatically? > Also, is there a special reason why we can't make all dummy packages > of extra priority? "Optional an above" is what you would install if > you wanted to install "everything", but if you wanted to install > "everything" (from scratch) you would not install dummy packages. > While we are at it: do the release managers have the power to change > priorities and sections, or would this have to be sorted out via bugs > against ftp.debian.org? It has to go through the ftp-masters. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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