Comment 7 for bug 666292

So: Alexander, Peter, Jesse and I all see that there is a problem here. In general, installing a package on ubuntu leaves that package in a working state. It should not be necessary to perform manual steps after installation to make things work, _unless_ those steps are clearly indicated in the output of the installation process.

If a user _already_ _knows_ that there is a necessary post-installation step that must be taken to make the package work, and what that step is, then that user will not have a problem. Otherwise, that user will have a problem. There are four examples of such users that have taken the time to comment on this bug!

Closing a bug with “I know how to do something non-obvious and, if you don't, that's your problem” isn't progress.

According to https://github.com/schacon/hg-git/issues/204 “… the Debian maintainer is doing it wrong. The package should ONLY be installed as hggit, not as hgext.git.”

On that basis, in what way is this bug invalid? It seems to get more valid each time I look at it!