On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 02:26:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>...
> > The majority of users are using the default of treating Recommends
> > as dependencies, for them it doesn't make any difference whether
> > Recommends or Depends is used.
> >
> > Not installing Recommends is supported, and
> Build breakage out of the void is not nice, usually maintainers
> inform
> reverse build dependencies them before making such a breaking change.
Yes, correct, and I'm sorry about this. It simply didn't occur to me
that the change would create a build breakage.
> The majority of users are
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:03:10PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > I already updated the title of the mass-merged bug to
> > "bsdmainutils must depend on bsdextrautils".
> >
> > This is anyway mandatory for not breaking upgrades from buster.
>
> Would you care to elaborate? I didn't find
> I already updated the title of the mass-merged bug to
> "bsdmainutils must depend on bsdextrautils".
>
> This is anyway mandatory for not breaking upgrades from buster.
Would you care to elaborate? I didn't find anything that mandates a dependency
over a recommendation. Yes, it does break
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:05:00AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: unmerge 963420
> Control: reassign 963420 src:zsh
> Control: retitle 963420 zsh: FTBFS: sh: 1: colcrt: not found
> Control: found 963420 5.8-4
> Control: affects 963420 =
>
> Dear Adrian,
>
> Debian Bug Tracking System
Hi Adrian,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > retitle 963327 bsdmainutils needs Breaks on util-linux versions without
> > > > the tools removed in 12.1.1
> >
> > I disagree that this would help in the case of the zsh FTBFS in
> > #963420.
> >...
>
> I already updated the title of the mass-merged bug
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