Serafeim Zanikolas <ser...@hellug.gr> writes: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I guess I'm not understanding why you don't just make bogofilter >> depend on bogofilter-common as well. What's the drawback? > > None really, but it would seem as if we're making a technical decision > for a bureaucratic reason, which doesn't seem right. Feel free to > close the bug, I just thought I'd give it a try anyway. Well, Don already mentioned one technical reason (it's a lot easier to check automatically using the current way). The underlying technical reason is that at the moment we don't require programs that are extracting copyright information to have to do more than look at one level of dependencies. They don't have to have a full dependency resolution engine to follow multiple levels. On a procedural level, while I don't want to keep doing something dumb just because it's what we're currently doing, I think a mild bias in favor of not changing things is good for stability. So I think the burden of evidence lies with the change, although that burden may not be particularly high. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
