severity 575786 important thanks On Sun, 09 May 2010, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Totally tired with having this bug here and there with different > packages, I change my mind and bump the severity of this bug to > serious, as dpkg fails to comply with §7.6.2 of Debian policy, > including an example in the policy:
I don't agree with your interpretation. The packaging system doesn't refer only to dpkg but to the whole system: apt + dpkg. Currently the non-regression tests of dpkg ensure that doing a dpkg -i in your situation effectively fails: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/pkg-tests.git;a=tree;f=t-conflict-provide-replace-virtual;hb=master So it's not really a mistake and I don't agree with the RC severity. I agree it would be nice to be able to tell dpkg somehow to take the decision alone without having to resort to remove with --force-depends or similar. Thus I'm keeping the bug open at severity important for now. But please understand that it's not a priority for us right now. If you want to see this fixed, by all means please try to provide a patch and stop raising the severity. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100517201235.ga30...@rivendell