Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-03-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:37:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: To the Project Secretary: Ian raised the point that he feels that option A should not require 3:1. The Provides: libjpeg-dev here is essentially a technical device to ensure that packages can declare Build-Depends: libjpeg-dev

Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-03-21 Thread Ian Jackson
(resending because of some 8-bit header damage) Kurt Roeckx writes (Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution): So if you really want to prevent using a supermajority, I suggest you write is so that you at least don't mention the other package by name but make it more general. Seriously ? I also

Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140322 00:39]: (resending because of some 8-bit header damage) Kurt Roeckx writes (Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution): So if you really want to prevent using a supermajority, I suggest you write is so that you at least don't mention the

Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-03-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:38:15PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: In general I worry that your interpretation of resolution texts focuses far too much on the exact words used, and far too little on the substance of the underlying issues. In this particular case we have two packages both of which

Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes: My understanding is that the point of virtual packages is so that several *can* provide it. But you're now telling 1 package that it can't do that, while you instead could say only one (other) package can do it in this case. That's one use of virtual