Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:41:01AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't think "but we don't want to make adduser Priority: required" is > > a good enough reason to add global static IDs; and passwd doesn't need > > to be made Essential just because an Essential package depends on it > > (Essent

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:55:57PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > What you are saying, in essence, is that we have not been > treating autoconf transitions with the care we devote to other > transitions; and as a result people have started shipping > intermediate files. > > Wh