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Re: release policy changes for etch



Em Ter, 2005-06-28 às 00:43 +0200, Andreas Barth escreveu:
> Hi, All,

Hey,

> As always, the full canoncial list of the RC policy for etch is available
> at http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt .

I feel there's too much redundancy there when taking debian policy into
account, is that redundancy really needed?

I have a question about this requirement:

	Packages must not install programs in the default PATH with
	different functionality with the same file name, even if they
	Conflict:.

Totem and Glade, for example, generate two binary packages each which
are mutually exclusive.

totem-gstreamer certainly provides functionality which is different from
the one provided by totem-xine. The same goes for glade/glade-gnome: the
first provides the nice UI builder, the second adds GNOME-related
widgets and functionality.

I and Sebastien, totem's maintainer, feel that it would not be a good
idea to apply this requirement on these cases. Do you have a rationale
for this requirement? Would you mind elaborating on that?

Thanks,

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