Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: I would be glad to change it if there were a fair number of developers who think that suggesting contrib software is fine. Suggesting contrib software is fine. -- - mdz

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:05:17AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They are asking that tvtime

How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Simon Law
Hi guys, Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They are asking that tvtime Suggests libdscaler. I thought that the appropriate thing to do was to have libdscaler Extends tvtime. My

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They are asking that tvtime Suggests libdscaler. I thought that the appropriate thing to do

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which complements the chosen package. umm. there are packages in

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: Hi guys, Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They are asking that tvtime Suggests libdscaler. I thought that the appropriate