Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > If I don't keep it somewhere, then someone could potentially upload a > package named base. > > On the other hand, I'm not sure that it actually matters if someone was > to upload such a package at some time in the future. I cannot see any p

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as > > deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it as an option. > > why? > > and then you'd want to remove the base package

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Don, On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as > deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it as an option. why? and then you'd want to remove the base package in 5 years or keep it forever or?? > Would t

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/b/base.png and > http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/g/general.png also underline my point. Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it