Re: "all" or "any" as Dependency Qualifiers

2010-01-04 Thread Jonathan Yu
Russ, Thanks very much for the thoughtful explanation. I'm glad that there will be a warning in the next release so that we realize it's a bad idea :) Cheers, Jonathan On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Yu writes: > >> This is a stupid idea, and I don't know any c

Re: "all" or "any" as Dependency Qualifiers

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Yu writes: > This is a stupid idea, and I don't know any case where it might make > sense to do it, but it has occurred to me that Policy doesn't mention > anything explicitly forbidding it, as far as I can tell. > Lintian allows it through without warning about it. Presumably this is >

"all" or "any" as Dependency Qualifiers

2009-07-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: This is a stupid idea, and I don't know any case where it might make sense to do it, but it has occurred to me that Policy doesn't mention anything explicitly forbidding it, as far as I can tell. Lintian allows it through without warning about it. Presumably this is because nobody has ever do