On Mon, 25 May 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > 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.
The technical reason to do it this way is that it makes it much easier to test in lintian or similar; you just need to examine the target of the symlink and see if the package depends on the package named in the symlink target. [I'm not really sure where the bureaucracy is here.] Don Armstrong -- No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
