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Re: confused with udeb Depends: control field



Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> After looking for a while I found that yesterday the versioned dependency
> was 'libdebian-installer4 (>= 0.19)' and was satisfied by
> libdebian-installer4 installed on host. I could build the image after I
> upgraded libdebian-installer4 on the host.
> 
> However, this confuses me. Why Depends: of udebs do ANYTHING with what is
> installed on host? Versioned dependency on libdebian-installer4 is not the
> single example. E.g. main-menu 0.061 udeb has 'libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)' in
> it's Depends.

Because installer/build/Makefile uses apt-get to download the udebs, and
we do not feed it a dummy status file, for various reasons.

-- 
see shy jo

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