On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:03:07PM -0500, Frédéric Brière wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:41:59PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > (Of course, I'm assuming that all dependencies on menu are from packages > > > wishing to run its binaries, and nothing more. Please correct me if I'm > > > wrong.) > > > > Most dependencies on menu are from packages using su-to-root, alas. > > Why alas? Isn't this exactly what m-a:foreign is for?
Sure, but this is not what su-to-root is for! > > Is there a specific reason for fluxbox to depend on menu ? > > I think this was a versioned dependency to fix a bug (#266217) from a > long, long time ago. (Whether or not this dependency is still useful is > probably a question better left to the maintainer.) Yes, this is probably no more needed. > > The menu policy actually discourage from depending on menu. > > Good to know. If you choose not to make menu m-a:foreign, I'll file a > specific bug against fluxbox over this dependency. I will probably do it after the freeze. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
