Hi, Ondřej Surý wrote on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 : > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote: > > (*) Perhaps one situation to accomodate both behaviors would be to check > > (both by moreutils and GNU parallel) if the program was invoked as, say, > > gparallel or tparallel and take some appropriate measure, but that's for > > later, not in a freeze. > > I would suggest README.Debian notice (if not already there) and remove > the default option on NEW installs in wheezy+1 with NEWS.Debian notice > how to re-enable old behaviour. Also we need to check for rev-deps (if > any). > > Nothing like that can be done in freeze.
I don't know what can or can't be done in freeze, but I've been using GNU Parallel for quite a while (thanks for this great tool!) and recently tried to use it on debian... Well, I've got too say I'm rather unhappy at how long it took me to finally figure it was "just" a configuration file somewhere added for legacy. I probably would never have found about it without the bugs in here, actually. I'd much rather have a big fat conflict with clear package names than spending hours finding out that this bug was actually a feature. It's not the first time two packages provide programs with the same names, and people can live with either or manually install one in the very unlikely case they need both. I know this mail isn't exactly helpful, but I just felt like ranting as well ;) Regards, -- Asmadeus | Dominique Martinet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
