On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:25:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I think this shows clearly there's an unresolved transition here. > > I understand bash-completion shouldn't be Essential, but the > > process for moving it out isn't being done properly. It's not > > acceptable that end users get this functionality silently disabled > > without any obvious explanation (they might not even know which > > package provides it, or how).
The release notes can trivially deal with this by suggesting (as they currently do!) that users use aptitude, which even in etch, handles Recommends: properly. They can also mention this specific problem, and handle the general class of problems where packages have been demoted to Recommends and/or split. Making bash-completion a dependency of bash obviates one of the important advantages of splitting out bash-completion: the ability to not have bash-completion installed. I suggest reassigning this bug to release notes with the following suggested verbiage: If you use apt-get to upgrade to lenny, you should first upgrade apt to the version in lenny, and then complete the upgrade to lenny using that version. The version of apt in lenny properly handles packages which have been split, with significant features only Recommended: by the unsplit packages. Don Armstrong -- The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves, or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
