Your message dated Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:19:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#487495: liferea-xulrunner_1.4 should be removed from
Lenny
has caused the Debian Bug report #487495,
regarding liferea-xulrunner: Useless dummy transitional package? Doesn't depend
on anything…
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Package: liferea-xulrunner
Version: 1.4.15-1
Severity: minor
Hi,
the long description says:
| Description: transitional dummy package
| This is a dummy package to ease transition from previous versions of liferea.
| .
| It can be safely removed from your system.
However, your package doesn't depend on anything, which kind of defeats
the point of a dummy transitional package, unless I'm mistaken.
Mraw,
KiBi.
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Version: 1.4.18
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:15:14PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> I am increasing the severity of this bug because the dummy package
> have the usual behaviour:
> * If liferea 1.4 can provide the same functionality as
> liferea-xulrunner_1.0, then it should "Depend" on the required
> package.
> * If liferea don't provide the features of *-xulrunner, then if should
> not pretend to provide it. (So the user is aware that the feature
> is discontinued)
The "required package", in this case, is liferea, which starting from
1.2.7 contains what used to be in liferea-xulrunner. There is no
dependency on the dummy package to liferea because the old -xulrunner
did not provide any functionality by itself, it was just a
plugin. Thus, if you had liferea and liferea-xulrunner installed, you
get the same functionality now by installing liferea by iself. If you
had only -xulrunner installed, you had no functionality at all, so
nothing is lost by upgrading to the dummy package
In other words: Yes, liferea Provides: liferea-xulrunner by itself,
and nothing else is needed.
So, why does liferea-xulrunner exist, since it contains nothing and is
not needed to pull some new dependency?
Because, as reported in #425472, apt-get would refuse to update if we
simply disappeared the liferea-xulrunner package and moved its files
into liferea, ignoring the Provides: line. I thus decided to keep the
dummy until after the lenny release, to allow clean upgrades both to
etch and to lenny.
In short: Looks like a bug and quacks like a bug, but isn't one.
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