Breaking deps deliberately

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed May 13 13:55:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:02:15PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> One more reason why we need depchecking before pushing updates.
>
>You might want to start by changing the packaging guidelines so that
>broken dependencies are actually outlawed.  You'll notice that they
>are not outlawed at the moment.

Mostly because we try not to write guidelines that seem to cover what most
people consider common sense....

josh




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