Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-09-07 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:51:53PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Paul Wise , 2014-09-07, 17:38: > >>We should probably also monitor package conflicts. We made a big fuss > >>about node vs nodejs (and rightly so); but I bet that we have lots of > >>other package pairs in the archive that can'

Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-09-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise , 2014-09-07, 17:38: We should probably also monitor package conflicts. We made a big fuss about node vs nodejs (and rightly so); but I bet that we have lots of other package pairs in the archive that can't be co-installed for no good reason. We have this already: https://bugs.de

Re: Detecting more undeclared conflicts (was: Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages)

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > would it make sense to extend this test and not only check whether packages > that share a file listed in Contents.gz can be co-installed but also packages > which access/change/create the same files in their pre/post-install maintainer > s

Detecting more undeclared conflicts (was: Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages)

2014-09-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2014-09-07 11:38:27) > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > We should probably also monitor package conflicts. We made a big fuss about > > node vs nodejs (and rightly so); but I bet that we have lots of other > > package pairs in the archive that can't b

Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We should probably also monitor package conflicts. We made a big fuss about > node vs nodejs (and rightly so); but I bet that we have lots of other > package pairs in the archive that can't be co-installed for no good reason. We have this alread

Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-09-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery , 2014-08-31, 09:08: If we want, as a project, to monitor the size of the required, important, and standard sets, I feel like we should do that directly: run a cron job somewhere that remembers the previous size, calculates the new transitive closure, and mails out a report once