Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-11-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 - wontfix Hi all, On 18-09-18 21:17, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 08:53:05PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >> On 18-09-18 17:21, gregor herrmann wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:11:30 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: Maybe we want autopkgtest to also support

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 08:53:05PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > > On 18-09-18 17:21, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:11:30 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > >>> So if needs-recommends vanishes, there will be at least dozens if not > >>> hundreds of perl packages which

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 18-09-18 17:21, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:11:30 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > >>> So if needs-recommends vanishes, there will be at least dozens if not >>> hundreds of perl packages which will immediately fail their >>> autopkgtests. >> >> Yes. We will need to

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:11:30 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > So if needs-recommends vanishes, there will be at least dozens if not > > hundreds of perl packages which will immediately fail their > > autopkgtests. > > Yes. We will need to find a replacement before dropping needs-recommends >

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:50:01PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:40:33 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:03:31 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > > > I have just pushed commit 9fade8dcb501250f704da9c77af1f8e6165dc941 that > > > documents that we want to

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:40:33 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:03:31 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > > I have just pushed commit 9fade8dcb501250f704da9c77af1f8e6165dc941 that > > documents that we want to remove the needs-recommends option as we > > discussed in

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Biebl writes ("Re: deprecating needs-recommends"): > I have a package (firewalld) which has optional dependencies like ipset > or ebtables. If those are not installed, firewalld will log a warning > and continue with the functionality disabled. ... > Now, if needs-recommends is going to be

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-09-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Paul On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:03:31 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > I have just pushed commit 9fade8dcb501250f704da9c77af1f8e6165dc941 that > documents that we want to remove the needs-recommends option as we > discussed in https://lists.debian.org/debian-ci/2018/06/msg00016.html. So I have this

Bug#896698: deprecating needs-recommends

2018-08-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 - patch Control: notforwarded -1 Control: clone -1 -2 Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: reassign -2 src:autodep8 Control: retitle -2 autodep8: don't use needs-recommends restriction Hi all, I have just pushed commit 9fade8dcb501250f704da9c77af1f8e6165dc941 that documents that we