[Fwd: Bug 1223199 - Unnecessary deps on packages that lock in things like Mir when not wanted.]

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 01.10.2013 03:35, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:04:31AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
>>> I am also concerned with many bugs these days are getting marked as they
>>> are with no justification or explanation.
> 
> I agree that it was not particularly helpful to mark the bug as "Won't
> Fix" without explanation, and I think that practice should generally be
> deprecated.
> 
> You seem to have escalated to the Technical Board rather rapidly without
> first trying to find common ground on the bug report, so I infer (I may
> be wrong) that perhaps there is some history of disagreement between you
> and Timo; even so, at least a copied-and-pasted explanation of the
> status change would have been usual.
> 
> CCing Timo to suggest this for the future.

Sorry for not adding an explanation that time, last week I was triaging
pretty much every bug on the ubuntu-x-swat package set filed against
saucy, so I dismissed this bug as a 'troll' in haste. I'll add this to
the bug now:

"It's just a -dev package, no mesa runtime dependencies pull in any Mir
libs.

also, libegl1-mesa-drivers pulls in libwayland* on every system, but I
guess that's ok.."


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