Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes: > The proposal 3) (which is implemented in dpkg as of today) was devised > following a discussion in Debian policy bug #218893 as a compromise > solution that was agreeable to everyone, then a patch to dpkg was > written (bug #229357). For reasons beyond my control, the patch was > actually merged only today.
Well... acceptable in the sense that it was better than arguing about it forever, but I've never been particularly happy with it, for the reasons that Bdale said. I think we should be able to just do a flag day, but I could well be too aggressive. -- 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
