> * Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 13:54]: > > Until all those bugs have been closed -- and until every package with > > a md5sum dependency has had a chance to be tested -- we should forbid > > deployment of the gnu version.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > No one will bother to check all these packages. Instead, allow the > GNU behavior and have bugs filed on those packages that break (I guess > most have been fixed already anyway). This is unstable after all. Ick. That approach encourages breakage. [At the moment, I'm thinking about an unrelated situation involving php4, but other situations are possible.] What's so hard about using apt to search for packages with the dependency, emailing those package maintainers? -- Raul
