Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-09-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Josh Triplett wrote: >>> This change does not propose eliminating the concept of Essential, nor >>> does it propose that any specific package become non-Essential. >> >> I think I'd be more supportive of this change if it did. Freezing the >>

Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-09-30 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 05:23:38PM -0700, jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Over the years, "Essential" has made it difficult to reduce installation > > size, to reduce chroot/container size, or to coordinate various > > transitions. Removing something from the

Re: Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-09-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:23:43AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > To be honest, as a reader, I found that to be the opposite. The "If > [epoch] is omitted" makes it sound as if there were an alternative > handling if it's not omitted. > > So the text > > If it is omitted then the

Re: Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-09-30 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Sean, On 2020-09-29 02:22, Sean Whitton wrote: > Technically superfluous but I think helpful to the reader, so I suggest > we just keep it. To be honest, as a reader, I found that to be the opposite. The "If [epoch] is omitted" makes it sound as if there were an alternative handling if it's