On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I see someone has already suggested this to the maintainer without success: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451945 > > He even acknowledges that Ubuntu has worked around this problem, but doesn't > seem to want to apply the same workaround in Debian. > > Rene, can you explain why? The problem is obviously caused by someone > else's broken package, but it seems harmless to add this workaround for the > benefit of users.
Full ack. Rene, it doesn't cost us much and avoids troubles for users. It's nice to have clean dependencies, but it's best when Debian just works for users (even for users who like to follow new stuff like beryl). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
