On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 08:08:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 01:31:14AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 11:59:34AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I've never liked the rule that you don't have to declare dependencies on > > > essential packages and would love to phase it out as much as possible (I > > > think even intermediate movement in that direction would be useful), but > > > I'd like Guillem to weigh in from a dpkg perspective to indicate whether > > > this makes sense to him and whether I'm missing something. > > > > This rule is vital to allow for smooth transition when essential > > programs are moved from one package to another. > > It's not? We have programs moving from one package to another all the > time outside the set of Essential packages, and the sky isn't falling.
Remember the libc5 to libc6 transition ? Imagine the number of packages that would depends on bash. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
