On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> 2/ this new package depends on ocaml-nox, and ocaml-nox needs to > >> depend on it until etch is released (for transitional purpose), > >> which makes a circular dependency. Is this a problem? > > > > Nope, we don't care about transitional purpose, if people want it, they can > > install it by hand, most people probably just don't care. > > > > Also, having a depend, recomend or suggest just breaks the whole purpose of > > moving it apart, and having a depend will have emacs continue break ocaml at > > random times. ocaml doesn't really depend on emacs, maybe a suggest would be > > it, apart that new apt-like tools auto-install suggests, so ... > > But usually in Debian, we try not to remove something from a package > like this. > For example, when dselect has been shipped outside dpkg, dpkg still > depended on it until the next debian release in order not for the > people to see it mysteriously vanish. > > Why wouldn't we follow the same guidelines?
Because the (o)caml-mode is only a minor functionality of ocaml, I would say. -Ralf. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
