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To: Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu; 586...@bugs.debian.org
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:35 AM
Subject: Bug#586243: education-desktop-sugar: please remove this package,
it's outdated and confuses users
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 01:06:15PM +, Sascha Silbe wrote:
Excerpts from Omar Alejandro Silva's message of Thu Jun 17 17:42:26 +
2010:
Accessing Sugar from desktop terminals or thinstations is important, please
don`t forget it while removing packages.
education-desktop-sugar is a
Excerpts from Andreas Tille's message of Mon Jun 28 09:20:04 +0200 2010:
education-desktop-sugar is a pure meta package, so removing it shouldn't
affect usage of Sugar with thin clients.
What is the problem in having pure metapackages?
The problem with this package is that it misleads users
[Sascha Silbe]
The problem with this package is that it misleads users into
installing it and turning their system into something that works
differently (LTSP) from what they expect (a regular desktop).
This do not sound right. There is nothing related ot LTSP in the
education-desktop-sugar
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:35:56PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
If someone cares about this package enough to maintain it, changing the
description (to point out that it's LTSP + Sugar, not Sugar on a desktop)
and updating the dependencies should be enough. But without an active
maintainer
tags 586243 + moreinfo
clone 586243 -1
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 package description is misleading
thanks
Hi Sascha,
a general comment: please file one bug about one issue. If you want to report
several issues, please file several bug reports. Thanks.
On Montag, 28. Juni 2010, Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Omar Alejandro Silva's message of Thu Jun 17 17:42:26 + 2010:
Accessing Sugar from desktop terminals or thinstations is important, please
don`t forget it while removing packages.
education-desktop-sugar is a pure meta package, so removing it shouldn't affect
usage of Sugar
Package: education-desktop-sugar
Severity: important
Please remove education-desktop-sugar from sid/squeeze. It depends on
obsolete package names and confuses users.
The description suggests this is what to install to get a complete Sugar
installation on a desktop, whereas it will actually
-sugar: please remove this package,
it's outdated and confuses users
Package: education-desktop-sugar
Severity: important
Please remove education-desktop-sugar from sid/squeeze. It depends on
obsolete package names and confuses users.
The description suggests this is what to install to get
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