Re: texmaker: Recommends on ghostscript
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> Backports are unofficial by nature. If you choose to make some
>> packaging backport-friendly then you go beyond the logic of official
>> Debian packaging, and lintian hinting no longer applies.
>>
>> In other words: Don't blindly follow lintian hints if you want to be
>> nice to backporters. Just be careful that you really know what you
>> are doing, because other Debian developers are right in
>> fingerpointing if you make fuckups while attempting to outsmart
>> tedious tools like lintian.
>
> Huh? Ruben, lintian and me agree that we do not want to support
> backporters and just Depend / Recommend existing packages. What are
> you talking about???
If I understand correctly, Ruben don't want to specialcase oldstable,
lintian don't care about backports at all, and you want to follow
lintian hints, so implicitly don't care about backports at all.
What I talk about is that lintian hints are only that: hints. That it is
often possible to both comply with Debian policy *and* support
backporting.
If you don't understand what I am talking about, if you understand but
don't agree, if you believe I misunderstand, or whatever, then just
ignore it and let it go.
- Jonas
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