On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:48:22PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > "We might some day later change the way apt works for upgrades" is not an
> > argument for adding a pre-dependency now.
> But that we do want to prevent a broken APT -- when using the common
> "dpkg -i ...; apt-get install -f" idiom (where ... is APT) -- certainly
> is an argument.
Yeah. I don't strongly disagree with this argument, but I also don't find
it particularly persuasive. apt already treats apt as special, I don't
think it's very consistent to ask dpkg and other front ends to also treat
apt specially (by way of Pre-Depends).
> The counter argument seems to be
> - we do not protect the user from removing APT with dpkg
> => counter argument: dpkg -i is common, dpkg -R is not
> (see Raphaël's email)
> - there are other package managers
> => counter argument: No other package manager has as few
> dependencies as APT and as high priority.
- it doesn't fit with the usual justifications of Pre-Depends
(needed in preinst, or package is essential and must be usable
when unpacked), and it will be pointed to as precedent for other
non-traditional uses of Pre-Depends, when it's already hard to
explain to people when Pre-Depends should be used and why?
(Yes, I know that I've just been responsible for a much worse instance of
this in the case of multiarch-support; I'm not thrilled about that either,
but don't see any other way to ensure reliable upgrades to wheezy.)
> So practically spoken, we are at something like +0.5 for the change
> based on the arguments. Based on votes, we're currently at +1.
> -1 jac...@debian.org
> +1 pe...@p12n.org
> +1 hert...@debian.org
> -2 kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com
> +2 j...@debian.org
> 0 m...@debian.org
> ------------------
> +1 total (maximum 9)
Well, I guess you could count me as a weak -1 here.
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