Bug#523960: equivs is surely not the solution to this problem. "Recommends:" is.
Hi David,
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:09:22PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> Axel Beckert wrote:
> >I really can't understand how someone can suggest to fake packages
> >using equivs instead of using the "Recommends:" header as it's
> >thought. [...]
>
> Thank you so much for repeating exactly what other people have said.
that was my intent.
> Given that the XSF must be collectively illterate, we didn't
> understand them the first dozen or so emails stating this, so the
> above was clearly necessary.
You got me wrong. But you seem to have started counting those mails.
That's good. :-)
> Note that this system was designed and implemented by a Nokia
> employee for an embedded system.
That's an interesting detail!
> [...] This is something that hal currently does very well and the X
> server can not do otherwise.
Thanks for this very detailed explanation. I'm sure many of those who
are (currently) unhappy about HAL and the wontfix for #515214 now
better understand the background of this obviously (still) unpopular
decision.
> All of that said, it's very likely that we will downgrade the
> depends to recommends,
Glad to hear that, anyway. I would suggest to remove the wontfix tag
then. It would cool down the people -- as your statement already does
for those caring to scroll down that far.
Such an explanation instead of a _commentless_ wontfix tag would have
been way better in the first place.
> just not right now. We have actual important bugs like totally
> broken installs that we want to deal with first.
Sure.
> >I herewith vote for demoting hal (#515214) and console-setup (#523960)
> >to recommends.
>
> The BTS is not a voting system.
Surely not, but it's a way to show maintainers that there's yet
another user who is very unhappy about a specific solution respective
that there is demand for another solution. And I obviously managed to
do that.
And happily I also managed to trigger a very informative explanation
about the background to this decision which will surely reduce the
amount of "I dislike the wontfix, too" mails as well as reducing the
wearout of someone's capslock key. ;-)
Thanks again for that informative reply, Axel
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Axel Beckert - abe@deuxchevaux.org, abe@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/
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