On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:39:25PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: > 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.
No, it would not work, unless policy mandate developers to read their emails. For example: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200207/msg00014.html> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl-0209/msg00012.html> ... and grep for Perl in the DWN. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
