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Subject: Re: Bug#753620: wishlist: idl/gdl-written software
Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:20:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:20:27 +0200
From: debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr)
Reply-To: Ole Streicher <deb...@liska.ath.cx>
To: debian-as...@lists.debian.org
Sergio Gelato <sergio.gel...@astro.su.se> writes:
* Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr [2014-07-04 14:45:14 +0200]:
Sylwester Arabas <sara...@igf.fuw.edu.pl> writes:
> - should idlastro become a dependency of gdl?
GDL should be a requirement of the package(s).
I'd vote for a simple Recommends:, to cater for those who want to use
the packages in some other way (e.g., in conjunction with proprietary
IDL).
In a Debian world, these packages only work with GDL, so GDL is required
(and not just recommended).
I worry a bit that otherwise GDL is just used as an excuse to ship
packages that require non-free software in main.
If these packages work with GDL: why should one use IDL then? And if
they don't: why should we put them into Debian?
Again: priority should be the use with GDL -- and only packages that
work with GDL can go into Debian (main); everything else would have
to go into contrib.
And can be moved to main as GDL's feature coverage catches up.
Sure.
Yet one could argue, given GDL's goal of compatibility with IDL, that
any unsupported feature is to be treated as a bug (usually in GDL)
rather than as an argument for relegating the package to
contrib. Should a test suite for a package in main have to be in
contrib just because some tests are still failing?
If a package is unusable with GDL, or so buggy that it is not worth
using it without IDL, I would think that it has an RC bug, so it should
not make its way into Debian -- independently whether its the packages
or GDLs fault.
Why not first fix the problem in GDL, and then include the package in
Debian?
Best
Ole
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