Am Dienstag, den 28.05.2013, 22:45 -0400 schrieb Ryan Kavanagh: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There have been two responses to your proposal so far, neither of > > which particularly looks to be in favor of your plan. I don't think > > it's reasonable to proceed with a mass-bug filing on over 800 packages > > as a first step, certainly not after such a short comment period. > > Sorry, I was overly eager in pushing this change. Thanks Steve for being > the "tempering voice of reason". > > As for the package count, where did you find the additional 700+ > packages? If I'm missing something, please let me know. Of matches in > the search[0] Paul Wise linked to, many matches are from the same > package, or more prominently (as with e.g., festival, gcc, geiser, > id-utils, gcl, etc.), found in the upstream build system but never > called at build time (one can deduce this from the fact that they don't > build-depend on texi2html). As I stated in my initial email, there are > at most 96 packages which would require some form of change, and these > are the packages that either build-depend (94) or depend (2) on > texi2html.
Have you checked indirect build-dependencies on texi2html (e.g. the package build depends on foo, which depends on texi2html)? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1369819747.2863.4.camel@deep-thought
