On 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you all recall when I wrote the 'gental upgrader' we talked about > > This should be called the "Gentile" upgrader, to fit in with the overall > religious motif. :-)
Lol! > > Killing xlib6-dev In favor of xlib6g > > Suiciding ncurses3.0-dev In favor of libc5-dev > > It's not at all clear how Killing and Suicide differ here. It's just debug output, it indicates what stage of the dependancy processing is being considered. I think killing means another package was being considered and suiciding means the current package was being considered. > > Getty should have a reduced score because it is obsolete. > > Provide a file called "penalty-box" with penalties (and possibly bonuses) > for obsolete packages or possibly packages+versions Should this be part of the archive? It is a nice solution, get Packages+Revision+Penalties. I was thinking of suggesting adding lines like Package: blah Obsolete: Yes To the hamm Packages file which would have a similar effect. Jason
