tags 569219 - patch thanks On 25/02/10 at 11:23 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Luca Falavigna wrote: > > > Package: developers-reference > > Version: 3.4.3 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > We have several meta-packages and transitional packages in the archive, > > some of them do not document that anywhere in their description. > > > > Users should be given such an information, so they can decide to remove > > some to save disk space and to remove useless packages from the system. > > > > I propose to clearly state a package is a meta-package or a transitioanl > > package in the long description. This is a common practice already. > > > For the purpose of removing useless packages, I would propose that > transitional packages are always "priority: extra" and "section: oldlibs". > > That would make deborphan to mark them as "packages that may be removed".
Right. Could someone update the patch? Thanks - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
