Hi Thomas, please stop shouting, it doesnt help your cause.
On Sonntag, 24. Januar 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Try on a minimal chroot and you will see that your package has
> > a problem.
Have you tried this? You should.
> Man, I'm the upstream author AND maintainer of the package, I did things
> like this for a reason, I know what I'm talking about here. There's no
> bug, this is the way the package works, and there's no way to fix this.
Yawn. Where's my coffee?
> If you want, I can call you and explain to you why it has to be this
> way. I can take about a 100 email messages otherwise.
Be my guest. But it's probably better you do as Nelson said, reproduce the bug
and then fix it.
> It makes absolutely NO
> SENSE to just have mysqmail installed without DTC. It makes NO SENSE to
> not run the installer of DTC.
So it's better to violate policy and break assumptions which are valid for
25000 other binary packages? I don't think so. A package needs to install
cleanly, even if the moon is in a bad phase.
I save you and me another bugreport for not mentioning this in the package
documentation, btw. :-P
> Pre-Depends are most of the time very nasty, and I don't
> want the nastiness of it.
That's right.
cheers,
Holger
P.S. my reply probably would have been less ironic if you didnt ask for it so
LOUDLY, MAN.
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