Control: severity -1 serious
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:25:51PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> The more precise reason, as I have explained many times already, is because
> the cargo package manager supports crates having optional dependencies. It is
> not feasible to automatically merge optional-dependency-sets together because
> it results in dependency loops that would not otherwise exist. It is not
> economically feasible to manually merge these sets together either, because
> it is boring and time-consuming work, error-prone (hard to manually tell if
> you did or did not introduce a cycle) and of questionable benefit.
We told you several times that cycles in Debian packages are supported.
> We are all volunteers, there is no "job security" here, why are we manually
> reviewing empty packages and we are we trying to conserve a process that
> involves manually reviewing empty packages?
So is the ftp team.
Regards,
Bastian
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