Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

[A. Costa]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:23:20 +0200
Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> Closing *again* as a non-bug.

I follow, but here's my 2 cents from userland...

If a 'python2.3' package existed in the current Debian distros, then
this bug could be moved to that package.  No 'python2.3' package
currently exists in Debian.  

Must it therefore follow, (as has been argued), that there is no
install bug?  At least two users have been bitten, and have registered
their doubts.

Bug #630787 seems to be a systemic Debian meta bug, where incomplete or
inaccurate metadata from an unmaintained "ex-package" _breaks_ the
install for a current package update.  From userland it's hard to see
why such breakage should ever be allowed.

If such a 'ghostly influence' meta bug already exists, then #630787
should be merged with it.  If such a meta bug does not exist, then #630787
should be moved and renamed to the appropriate meta package.

Otherwise we can expect that future maintainers will needlessly be 
distracted by users with similarly misdirected bug reports, perhaps
forever...