Bug#207400: Notes
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:09:01AM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> [Is apt bug chatter no longer relayed to deity@l.d.o? Or should that CC:
> be dropped?]
It is.
> It's probably more of a problem for aptitude. Downloading it's source and
> grepping reveals that it frequently uses both, and ISTR aptitude having
> more complete support for policies than any other apt frontend (dselect
> left aside, but it doesn't use apt-pkg)
>
> Downloading and grepping some more: synaptic appears to use only
> IsImportantDep, the (now obsolete) stormpkg uses both, deity (which isn't
> in the archive anymore but it's maintainer has expressed to be still
> interested in getting it back in sometime) uses only IsImportantDep.
It wouldn't be a problem, I don't think, to have both implemented inline,
with one calling the other, so that both would expand to the same code and
nothing would break. One could be marked as deprecated so that gcc would
issue a warning where it is used.
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- mdz
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