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.
So what should be in "Depends:" of an udeb?
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