On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 01:59:40PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 28/1/23 a las 12:50, Andreas Henriksson escribió: > > > Claiming there's no point to free software when the problem is simply > > that you are using an *unsupported* setup?!?! > > Unsupported by whom? What is supported or unsupported is explained in policy. > Policy says it must work. Therefore it should be supported (by fixing the > bugs).
Policy §2.5: # "required" # Packages which are necessary for the proper functioning of the # system (usually, this means that dpkg functionality depends on # these packages). Removing a "required" package may cause your # system to become totally broken and you may not even be able to use # "dpkg" to put things back, so only do so if you know what you are # doing. > That's a straw man. I'm not proposing anything of the sort. Policy says > packages must build when essential and build-essential packages > are installed (plus build-dependencies). Build-essential _packages_. Not the "build-essential" package which very clearly says its dependencies are purely informational. > You and others are essentially saying I should not follow policy No, we are saying that we believe your understanding of the policy is flawed. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Let's make a Debian conference in Yalta, Ukraine. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
