Dear Markus Thanks a lot for your swift response!
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:38 -0400, Markus Waldeck wrote: > Dear Andree > > > I am writing to you, because you have filed two bugs against the mondo > > package, #314782 and #315733. > > > I am awaiting feedback from you on #314782 since 19 Jun 2005 and on > > I answered Alban! I thought it was something along those lines, that's why I ended up emailing you directly. Basically, the best thing is that all communicating to bug reports is sent to <bug number>@bugs.debian.org. That way the entire discussion is captured in a public space and all people involved or interested can see what's happening. In the current case, I am actually the package (co-)maintainer whereas Alban is not actually involved with the package. > Maybe the mail was lost. > > I told him that in my opinion it is not acceptable to have a "broken" package. > > I suggested him to make different packages which is common in debian: > - ettercap vs. ettercap-gtk > - snort vs. snort-pgsql vs. snort-mysql > - acidlab vs. acidlab-pgsql vs. acidlab-mysql > - and so on I don't believe this is comparable: mondo works fine without the dvd+rw-tools package installed. It only needs it for DVD writing. If you don't want to do this, you don't need the dvd+rw-tools package for mondo. This is unlike e.g. ettercap-gtk which doesn't start without the gtk library avaiable whereas ettercap doesn't use gtk even if it is installed. Please also see my previous message to you that I hope you have received on 19 Jun 05, where I refer to Debian Policy, section 7.2, which has more details about 'Recommends' versus 'Depends'. The underlying idea is basically that recommended packages are getting installed unless this is actively prevented by the user. This means that normally the dvd+rw-tools package would get installed along with mondo but someone that doesn't want it, e.g. because of space constraints does not have to install it. > > #315733 since yesterday. It would be great if you could provide feedback > > to both these bugs reports. > > I have to reinstall mondo which I could not do before the weekend. That would be great! I'm certainly keen to fix the problem. > mw Cheers Andree -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia
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