[Pkg-samba-maint] [SCM] Debian packaging for Samba branch, samba_4.0, updated. upstream/4.0.6+dfsg-822-gbbe4102

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:33:37AM +0300, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > Obsolete packages should be cleaned up using a package manager frontend that
> > reports that they are obsolete, not by adding Conflicts for things that
> > aren't actually conflicting.

> I always thought this is somehow a weakness of our packaging system
> but, anyway....

> Do you think it's better to have a(n empty) transition package in such
> case of just do nothing and therefore leave old, unmaintained code on the
> system?

I don't think it's appropriate to have any "transition" package
(transitioning to what?), nor to force the package off the system with wrong
package relationships.  The way for users to get old, unmaintained code off
their systems is to check with a package manager's list of old and
unmaintained code, *not* to have individual packages special-casing their
removal.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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