Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-31 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
* WA => Wichert Akkerman WA> If any random user does this things get messy which is the last WA> thing that should happen. I think the right thing would be any random developer who feel inclined to do a patched deb ASAP, should to it, put it in some available place on the net, and drop a note

Package Dependencies

1999-03-31 Thread Adrian Lopez
The purpose of this message is to inspire discussion with respect to Debian's package dependency issues. I apologise if this is not the proper venue for this, but I felt that the dpkg and deity development lists would be even less appropriate. I also apologise if this has been discussed before. I'm

solved (was: Re: Package Dependencies

1999-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 06:36:44PM -0400, Adrian Lopez wrote: > I would like to freely customise my system without causing package > dependency problems. The best solution I can think of is to be able to > "dummy install" any package that is not considered to be "critical". Package: equivs Priorit

Re: solved (was: Re: Package Dependencies

1999-03-31 Thread Adrian Lopez
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Package: equivs Hello... I would have never thought of looking for such a package. It would really be much better to have a way of doing the same by using built in features in the package management system's frontend program. It would be more visible this way, and less

Re: solved (was: Re: Package Dependencies

1999-03-31 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-policy, Adrian Lopez wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Package: equivs > > Hello... I would have never thought of looking for such a package. It > would really be much better to have a way of doing the same by using > built in features in the package management system's frontend p