Hello, On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 09:28PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:12:25AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon 06 Aug 2018 at 09:18AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> >> > Thank you for not overriding the default apt behaviour of allowing >> > upgrades to install additional recommended packages. The Debian >> > Emacsen team is in the process of transitioning emacs-goodies-el to a >> > dummy transitional package that depends on a set of elpa-packages, >> > which are more resistant to the type of issue [1] represents. >> >> Just to be clear, as a package maintainer you may not assume that >> recommends will be installed. > > Yes, of course... > > In your opinion, should emacs-goodies-el use hard depends at this > time? Also, as a matter of policy, must dummy transitional packages > use hard depends? ISTM that it should be a Depends: relation. -- Sean Whitton
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