Breaking deps deliberately

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed May 13 14:16:29 UTC 2009


Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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....
>   
it seems that in some parts of the world common sense is overrated, so 
probably we should add those cases to the guidelines,too



Wolfy " what?  you want to install a package in F10 and you did not 
enable  the F11 repo ?! geeee, the new common sense says you should have 
all Fn + rawhide enabled !! "




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