Broken dependencies in universe

[Ryan Thiessen]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:44:33 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > It seems more logical to me that if a package does not exist in Ubuntu
> > universe, every application that depends on that package should not be in
> > universe either.  Having broken packages in the repository just seems
> > tacky and worse than not having the packages available at all.  Or is
> > there a reason I'm not aware of why broken packages have a reason to exist
> > in the repository?
> 
> "tacky" or not, many of the uninstallable packages in universe are due to
> other packages which fail to build, and if they were fixed, these packages
> would become installable.  There's no need to remove them when the
> underlying problem is usually easily fixable if someone investigates it.

Okay, I guess I understand the logic involved there.  I wasn't trying
to offend, I swear.  Thanks for the explanation.

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Cheers,
-Ryan Thiessen-