On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > We still have the upgrade problem with network-manager from squeeze gnome > to wheezy gnome, but I would expect, if I had the full gnome metapackage > installed, for quite a lot to potentially change across versions: new > applications added or dropped, new implementations of particular common > tasks to be blessed upstream, etc. So I'm not sure if that's as strong of > a reason to stick with Recommends in that metapackage. > > To be clear, if I were the GNOME maintainers, I would use Recommends. But > I'm not, and I'd rather that they make the call as much as possible. > Putting aside the communication breakdowns and the heated arguments and so > forth, if just the gnome metapackage issue in its current form had come to > us cold, I'm trying to work through what decision I'd make.
I agree that the issue is less serious in gnome than in gnome-core. Still, the upgrade problem seems unchanged. The users who removed network-manager in squeeze presumably made an explicit decision to do so, since package managers would have honoured the Recommends by default; I'm really troubled by overruling that in this way. I think I would have ended up voting the same way if the original question put to us had been about gnome rather than gnome-core. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
