Package: debian-policy Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-29 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was the case with the disappearance of perlapi-5.6.1 in the process of upgrading to perl 5.8.0. A bunch of packages broke and refuse to install. It seems like that could have been avoided by notifying the maintainers ahead of time that a dependency of their packages was going to disappear, and to give them some time to write fixes. --mark-- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux nutter.linuxdelivery.com 2.4.20 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 17:48:13 PDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
