On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:52:43AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:21:09PM +0100, Cristian Greco wrote: >> First of all, I apologize for not taking care of the huge amount of >> bugs with deluge lately. >> >> I tend to disagree with the proposed patch. The current situation of >> deluge dependencies is *exactly* as it was intended: the reason is >> clearly (IMHO) stated in packages description; and it is the result >> of a discussion which also involved upstream authors and led to the >> kind of fragmentation of dependencies we all see. >> >> The patch proposed to fix this bug is a complete revert of the change at >> [0], which in turn was discussed and agreed with upstream in order to >> fix the bug at [1] and to make it clear the client-server model of >> deluge and the role of its UIs packages. >> >> Having said that, I'd prefer to leave package' dependencies untouched, >> and instead ask you for suggestions on how to improve their descriptions >> and make it clear to the final user why and when she or he should >> choose to install `deluge` rather than `deluge-gtk` (maybe the name of >> the package is also unfortunate here and helps causing confusion). >> >> [0] >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/deluge.git;a=commitdiff;h=c9647e5e55e3fa89b4b4073708b291c3c08a23f9 >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deluge/+bug/672069 >There is only one change needed: if an user installs just deluge-gtk they >shouldn't get the classic mode enabled by default. >I'm not sure that this is possible at all, though.
If that's not possible, then I'd argue that the package split is a mess. Installing an end-user desktop program that *by default* will show a python stack strace to a user on first use is far too unfriendly. IMHO that's RC, just as described in this bug report. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
