Le 11/01/19 à 18:28, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :
On Fri 2019-01-11 18:17:26 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
The problem is what/who will decide if this package is installed? If
that package is being pulled by on other package for some reason, that
means that the local administrator will not be able to revert the
decision of the package maintainer who has added this dependency
agreed, a runtime dependency on that for anything but a "preferred
system configuration"-style metapackage would be a bad thing. but it'd
also be a very visible thing.
Hopefully if that happend, the affected user could report a bug on that
dependency, and in the meantime work around it with something like
equivs.
The problem is that if nothing is pulling the new package in the default
installation, nobody will ever use it. And we will create a new
difference between debian and the other distributions.
