> > 2. If you think that bison should work even under this specific
> > breakage (after all the byacc link is obviously stale), you need to
> > fix dpkg instead of bison.
I strongly doubt it's dpkg's fault. After all, handling compatibility
problems of that sort is supposed to happen in postinst (which is what I
suggested).
> > 1. Nothing needs to be done. We close the bug.
>
> > 2. Something needs to be done. We assign this bug to dpkg.
dpkg can't be expected to know everything of that sort. If the byacc
breakage is a known problem you should account for it.
> > Let me know your thoughts.
>
> In either event, it is not an RC bug in bison to clean up after byacc's
> historical breakage.
Conceded - I still consider it a bug nonetheless.
Thanks for demonstrating the power of RC bugs in making life easier for us
autobuild maintainers.
Michael
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