[Trisquel-devel] Idea: Dummy or virtual packages for some non-free software instead of removing

[Ivaylo Valkov]

В 15:51 +0200 на 07.06.2012 (чт), Morne Alberts написа:

> I would assume that before a package gets removed it should be verified
> that no other packages depend on it.

That was my assumption before I found the problem I've described in the
bug report for bug #5330. 

>  If it turns out that another package depends on it absolutely, 
>  then the whole chain of packages should be removed (or turned
>  into virtual packages).

I think this will be a huge problem, based on my experience with the 
libcapi20-3 package and bug #5330. The package by itself is
non-essential (for me?) and provides a programing interface to ISDN. I
don't even need the package, because I do not have ISDN. Only few
packages directly depend on it, but the second level dependencies could
break the entire system, or at least that is my conclusion.
 
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