Hi! On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 20:27:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> writes: > > […] It can be made explicit in section 3.8 quite easily: > > > Since dpkg will not prevent upgrading of other packages while an > > ``essential`` package is in an unconfigured state, all ``essential`` > > packages must supply all of their core functionality even when > > -unconfigured. If the package cannot satisfy this requirement it must not > > +unconfigured after being configured at least once. > > +If the package cannot satisfy this requirement it must not > > be tagged as essential, and any packages depending on this package must > > instead have explicit dependency fields as appropriate. Seconded. Thanks, Guillem
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