This proposal requests relaxing Policy's copyright rules to allow for completely empty packages that contain no files for use in transitions. The contention was that such packages would then be immediately forgotten by dpkg rather than lingering on the system.
There is no response in the bug to my request for clarification that this is what dpkg really does. I vaguely remember there may have been discussion elsewhere, not copied to the bug, that established that it doesn't work as well as one would like with such a package. This might be worth considering if this were a supported dpkg feature, but that needs to be confirmed first. In the absence of additional information, I'm rejecting this proposal. This is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
