Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:17:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I wouldn't place any of Boost in that category. In fact, I wouldn't place aptitude in that category, either. aptitude was historically the recommended tool to use for upgrades because it had the best dependency resolver for

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:59:45AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: This manual represents the opinion of a single developer. And what does that have to do with the price of bananas in Iceland? The fact that aptitude is currently the recommended tool for package management

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:38:50AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: - When I type 'aptitude install foo', *removing* foo instead of upgrading is not a valid solution and should never be offered. It's still an outstanding (and irritating) bug as late as yesterday's sid... -- Jonathan

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59:56AM -0400, Will wrote: aptitude is the preferred package management tool, so I'm thinking that the priority of libboost-iostreams should be upgraded [1][2]. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations This

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-16 Thread Frans Pop
Steve Langasek wrote: This manual represents the opinion of a single developer. And what does that have to do with the price of bananas in Iceland? The fact that aptitude is currently the recommended tool for package management has various reasons: user interface, features, dependency

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:29:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59:56AM -0400, Will wrote: aptitude is the preferred package management tool, so I'm thinking that the priority of libboost-iostreams should be upgraded [1][2]. [1]

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Folks, The package aptitude is priority important and depends on libboost-iostreams, which is optional. This is a violation of Policy section 2.5. The request of Bug #588608 is to raise the priority of libboost-iostreams to important. Reading Policy, I note that important means:

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca writes: I wouldn't place any of Boost in that category. In fact, I wouldn't place aptitude in that category, either. aptitude was historically the recommended tool to use for upgrades because it had the best dependency resolver for handling the dist-upgrade

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Will
6, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca writes: I wouldn't place any of Boost in that category.  In fact, I wouldn't place aptitude in that category, either. aptitude was historically the recommended tool to use for upgrades because it had

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-10 Thread Ron
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-2 Severity: serious Serious as per policy 2.5 Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06:54PM +0930, Ron r...@debian.org was heard to say: Serious as per policy 2.5 Guess we'd better increase the priority of iostreams, then. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?