Simon Richter <[email protected]> writes: > On 17.10.2014 16:54, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>> If the fix is not easy then we have three options: the release team >>> mark it `jessie-ignore', the GNOME maintainers fix it, or GNOME is >>> removed from jessie. > >> The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants >> to rely on specific features of a given initsystem. > > The implication of not making sure packages get along with each other > may be that system administrators need to decide which of the mutually > exclusive desktop systems they can offer their users.
That's however not what the proposal forbids: A can depend on init-A|init-B, B can depend on init-B|init-C and C can depend on init-C|init-A. There's no way to install both A, B and C. > No, but I think we should reject packages that are mutually exclusive > with unrelated packages because they require incompatible choices of > packages they depend on. Again, this does seem to be a different issue than what the GR proposes. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
