On Vi, 16 sep 11, 00:48:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > I wonder if there should be a separate mailing list to Cc: such > bug reports. (debian-dependency-inquisitors@, perhaps?) I don't think dependencies need any special handling compared to other bug reports. In cases where you don't agree with the resolution you can discuss the issue - together with the maintainer - on debian-devel. > I seem to remember that there was a longstanding issue with > Depends: logrotate. Of course, no package should ever be > “rendered unusable” (which, AIUI, is the very essense of > Depends:) should logrotate not be installed! Yet, there seem to > be something like 45 packages that Depends: on it as per Debian > Wheezy. Could you provide concrete examples? I assume packages not logging to syslog do need some rotation of their logs, otherwise they could render systems unusable by filling up the drive. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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