On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Package: developers-reference > Version: 3.4.3 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > We have several meta-packages and transitional packages in the archive, some > of them do not document that anywhere in their description. > > Users should be given such an information, so they can decide to remove some > to save disk space and to remove useless packages from the system. > > I propose to clearly state a package is a meta-package or a transitioanl > package in the long description. This is a common practice already.
For the purpose of removing useless packages, I would propose that transitional packages are always "priority: extra" and "section: oldlibs". That would make deborphan to mark them as "packages that may be removed". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.1.10.1002251119540.10...@kolmogorov.unex.es
