Today I have installed potato from scratch, using boot-floppies 2.2.4. I have made a list of annoying things:
* There exists a perl-base package which is fake and essential. Is this really needed? essential packages should not proliferate, because some day we will want to get rid of them and we will not be able to do it. If desired, I could make base-files to depend on perl5-base, as it is already done with awk. * perl-5.005 recommends a specific version of the -doc package. (i.e. using "="). This is extremely annoying. I strongly suggest to make perl-doc a virtual package and Recommend that instead (in case there are perl 5004-doc and perl 5004-doc). Even a recommend is too strong, a Suggests would be much better. * There is an export LANG=C appended to /root/.bashrc. But /usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc does not have any LANG= line. This is a leftover of an workaround for an important bug in slink's dpkg, but should be already fixed in potato, so the boot floppies should not modify /root/.bashrc anymore. * console-tools asks about the layout of my keyboard. Would be nice that the installation program remembers that since it is the very first thing it asks about. I guess this is something to be solved by debconf. * apt default configuration for non-US should read non-US/main etc. (I've not tested 2.2.5 floppies, maybe this is already fixed). * gnuplot should not ask about its suid-ness by default. (I'm using the default level of questions in debconf. I guess this should be solved by modifying the priority of the question). * lynx still has non-bright red and non-bright blue. This is almost unreadable. This was already reported a long time ago but it has not been fixed yet. Has the maintainer tried this colors on console? * nfs-kernel-server and nfs-server are both standard but conflict at each other. This is grave because they are both standard, but there should be a lot more of conflicts between optional packages which nobody has checked so far and are against policy now that it has been clarified. I will appreciate that someone takes Manoj's pkg-order and start making reports to make potato conflict-free among optional packages. * The "mv" command from busybox (I think this is how it's called) does not work properly. I'm used to install Debian from scratch over my previous installation, by switching to the 2nd virtual console and doing cd /target; mkdir OLD; mv * OLD. This now results in a complete mess. [ Fortunately I had /home in a different partition ]. I will report a bug for every of this in the next days, unless somebody tells me they are fixed, but there is a bad thing here: not every of this deserves a "Severity: important" bug. This means we may well release the distribution again having a considerable number of ugly bugs. Am I the only who thinks we need a new severity: ugly to prevent this? Thanks. -- "e0d27b1f10fc8ed78e4bd0c266269907" (a truly random sig) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
