Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 à 23:47 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages > should have their dependencies marked as non-automatic so they don't get > removed when the top package is removed. > > I think mixing the two types of packages would be a mistake as one wants > quite a different behaviour from them: > > metapackages: keep them installed > transitional: remove after upgrade once nothing depends on it
Basically I agree. Either a new section or oldlibs sounds better for metapackages. > I think dependencies of metapackages should be left as automatic but > frontends should ask wether to turn them all to non-automatic when the > meta package is selected for removal. So at removal time one would get > the choice of keeping all/some or removing them all. This could also > only ask if the metapackage was non-automatic. Indeed. Another thing to do with metapackages should be to give a higher priority at keeping them installed when doing full upgrades. Obviously you don’t want that with transitional packages. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1323161830.31948.256.camel@pi0307572
