package: bugs.debian.org severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-de...@bugs.debian.org, virtual-pkg-base-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi, please remove the "base" pseudo package, which description is "Base system general bugs", though the old German translation is more telling about its history and why it's useless today: "Allgemeine Fehler im Basis-System (baseX_Y.tgz)" (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages.de.html) Back in the very old days, when we had baseX_Y.tgz, the base pseudo package was useful, nowadys all base bugs can be reassigned to a specific package which is part of the base system. (Which probably (?) means all packages installed by debootstrap), so today the "base" pseudo package is completly bug free if someone bored enough cleans it. But this is a boring, repeative and useless job! This is different from the "general" pseudo package, which is useful for tracking general bugs which affect a large part of the distribution, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=general for those 12 bugs (which I do consider useful to have there). http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/b/base.png and http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/g/general.png also underline my point. cheers, Holger, with his base bugs janitor hat, which is probably pretty but also useless
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