Bug#515214: Bug#523960: equivs is surely not the solution to this problem. Recommends: is.

2009-09-29 Thread Pierre Ynard
Hello David, All of that said, it's very likely that we will downgrade the depends to recommends, just not right now. We have actual important bugs like totally broken installs that we want to deal with first. It's been 5 months since then, could you please give us an update on this? I'm

Bug#515214: Bug#523960: equivs is surely not the solution to this problem. Recommends: is.

2009-04-22 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, Just following up to David Nusinow comment (not directed at him but this seems to be where the main defencive stance on this seems to be): X.org not only runs on fat workstations but also on embedded device where you as less abstraction layers and diskspace used as possible. Debian

Bug#515214: Bug#523960: equivs is surely not the solution to this problem. Recommends: is.

2009-04-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 20:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: I herewith vote for demoting hal (#515214) and console-setup (#523960) to recommends. THIS IS NOT A FUCKING VOTE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#515214: Bug#523960: equivs is surely not the solution to this problem. Recommends: is.

2009-04-15 Thread David Nusinow
Axel Beckert wrote: I really can't understand how someone can suggest to fake packages using equivs instead of using the Recommends: header as it's thought. The Policy says in 7.2 very clearly in all but unusual installations, so nobody can't use users who just want it work as argument.