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Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better



From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Subject: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly  a warning on install is better
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:28:48 +0900

> > A user who wants and so is familiar with texi2html will
> > install texi2html even if there is no fake dependency,
> > I guess.  Package name is self-explanatory or trivial.
> 
> We are not talking about a user, 
> we are talking about apt, and dpkg, and buildd, and all
> the other tools that exist.

Really?  I can't believe so.  If I understood correctly,
Santiago's main concern was to provide smooth upgrading
from potato to woody for a user.

As he said in a former email,

> I do not
> propose to make tetex-bin to depend on texi2html forever, I just
> propose doing so for woody. After woody the dependency may be dropped.

this is woody specific problem.  If this is a _general_ issue
as you think, how this can be woody specific?

I know you are woking on something buildd/autobuilder but
this is not such problem, IMHO.
(Did you read this thread from the beginning?)

Best regards,		       2002.2.26

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.



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