On 27 May 2010 20:58, Matt McCutchen <matt(a)mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:03 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> While it's not good packaging, most of the time these bad versions
> don't cause any problems.
It's better to have the packages that are supported (to the extent that
the community provides support) for the distribution version being used
and won't appear in "package-cleanup --orphans".
Yes - this is rather important, because our user facing docs (on the
wiki) for preupgrade recommend removing all packages identified with
package-cleanup --orphans. A naive user could literally wipe out their
system by blindly doing that. That's my main concern - we should not
be leaving landmines for users.