On Sat, 01 May 2021 19:41:24 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [...] > Could you perhaps ask the previous maintainer why he originally made a > Depends on it?
I really doubt he can remember, after some 15 years... I took a look at the git repository log, to see whether I could spot an explanation in the commit messages, but I failed to find anything about this. Maybe I should use git-bisect to pinpoint the exact commit that introduced the dependency... But this would not necessarily be useful: the original reason for adding the dependency could be obsolete today (maybe the needed feature is now also implemented in the Ruby net/http library... but other httpclient features could still be missing from the net/http library!). > > Other than that, it might still be a possibility to actually demote the > dependency (perhaps just in unstable), and wait for people to report > when they run into problems (it shouldn't be anything that wouldn't be > noticed immediately, the only thing that would be kinda "hidden" was > TLS/no-TLS, but that's anyway not a point... so if it's something like > proxy, you'd get rather soon a ticket). [...] Well, I am a bit hesitant to break people's systems, just to see what it breaks! If I did so in unstable, I would do Debian users a disservice. If I did so in experimental, the risk would be that too few users would test the package. Not easy. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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