Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:27:34AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > There's also the problem that if a meta package removes a dependency > in a later version, that package will still stay of the system with > the current implementation. Is this really a problem? It could be perfectly OK to sim

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 à 23:47 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages > should have their dependencies marked as non-automatic so they don't get > removed when the top package is removed. > > I think mixing the two types

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:21:50AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (goswin-...@web.de): > > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > > handling on them. > > > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (goswin-...@web.de): > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > handling on them. > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go > to the metapackages section. oldlib

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:47:30PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > handling on them. > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go > to the metapacka

New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go to the metapackages section. The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages s