Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > > > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > > > match the "makes life easier for > >

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > > match the "makes life easier for > XXX>" scenario you describe. > > Recommends is wrong for metapa

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > match the "makes life easier for XXX>" scenario you describe. Recommends is wrong for metapackages because it gets upgrades very wrong. This is why it is used very

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-10 Thread Miles Bader
Félix Arreola Rodríguez writes: > But, ignoring the "a desktop works fine without n-m" thing, n-m makes > more, much more easy connecting to wifi networks, espeacially for > laptops. I suggest make Laptop task depend on n-m, in this way, n-m > don't get installed on desktop systems, just on laptop

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-09 Thread Félix Arreola Rodríguez
El lun, 09-07-2012 a las 19:46 +0100, Ian Jackson escribió: > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > > "Breaks unrelated software" on the system is a RC severity, and there's no > > way one can say a windowing environment is related to core networking. > > Thus, I'd say, #542095

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Biebl
On 09.07.2012 20:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > > To the Gnome maintainers: given that Adam has done this test, to check > that things are OK without n-m, would you be willing to make this > change to the gnome-core metapackage ? no, meta packages are not a super market. And fwiw Adam is spreading a l

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > "Breaks unrelated software" on the system is a RC severity, and there's no > way one can say a windowing environment is related to core networking. > Thus, I'd say, #542095 needs to be upgraded -- and changing Depends: to > Recommends: is a