Hi Santiago, On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 11:49, Santiago Vila wrote: > Package: libjpeg-turbo-progs > Version: 1:1.3.1-4 > Severity: serious > > Changelog says: > > * Remove dummy libjpeg-progs from libjpeg-turbo > > I wonder why is the reason for this.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763360#20 (and #754988 FWIW) > The result of removing the dummy package is that the user has to > approve the upgrade by hand because there are packages that are > *removed*. This is what currently happens in an upgrade from testing > to unstable: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libjpeg-progs > > That will be also what will happen in an upgrade from current stable > to testing if we allow this package to enter testing. > > Upgrades are smoother if we have dummy packages like this one. Having > smooth upgrades has been always one of the goals of Debian. Yes, I agree. > Please do not make the upgrade more tricky by dropping dummy packages. This should be remedied by src:libjpeg9 providing libjpeg-progs as requested by Bill Allombert, the libjpeg6b/8/9 maintainer. If you want to make this a tad bit clearer, you can report bug against libjpeg9 to provide libjpeg-progs and add block relation between that and this bug. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
