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

[Felipe Sateler]

People, please lets keep it civil.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:49, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> You say that "It is beneficial to Debian to keep package dependencies
>> as simple as possible." Generally I agree, but I'd also say it is even
>> more benefical to try as hard as possible not to break things - even
>> possibly unsupported corner cases.
>
> So you like "simplest possible", but favor complexity by tracking
> unusual corner cases - including extremes of unsupported cases.

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> > If you cannot live with others applying such tiny changes to your pet
> > packages, you shouldn't have them team-maintained!
>
> You claim it is a tiny change, I do not.

All decisions have costs and benefits. In this particular case, the
cost is having to specify a minimum required python version. The
benefit is that people with unsupported old cruft in their system will
continue to have a working system, and it may even enable them to
remove said old cruft from the system.

Jonas, why do you claim it is not a tiny change? In this case it is a
1 line patch that requires no maintainance.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler