On 2009-05-11 11:08:24 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Versioned recommends are almost useless: If the user is using testing > and the recommended package is also in testing, a versioned recommends > is the same as a normal recommends. If the recommended package is not > in testing yet, the user will be annoyed, as he will not understand > why a package recommends another one which simply "does not exist".
Such kind of problems can already happen with normal recommends or depends. Users should be educated. > In this particular case, only a minority of users manage big zipfiles. > Everybody else is able to unzip packages using any version of unzip. > As unzip 6.0 will be in testing soon, I don't think it's worth to > worry about that. There's still a problem: if I "fix" the archive with -FF, the new archive is not readable by the old unzip that is in Debian/stable. This is nasty for interoperability. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
