On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > What about actual oldlibs? It seems like it might be reasonable to > show those in software center but not show dummy packages, so using > oldlibs to imply dummy would result in a mistake.
No, I don't think it's reasonable to show old libraries in USC. oldlibs is by definition only used for old packages that nothing in the current release should depend on and that are only made available for supporting binary-only software. These are not packages that make sense to expose in a user-oriented interface like USC; either the packages should be pulled in as dependencies of whatever binary software the user is installing via USC, or the user is installing their software by some means other than USC already and the setup instructions for that non-Ubuntu software can deal with guiding them through the oldlibs installation. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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