On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:46:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > >As long as you don't introduce dependencies on xlibs I'll be happy. > > groff-base will certainly not; I had, however, expected whatever package > contains gxditview to depend on xlibs ... Herbert wants a policy violation grandfathered. In potato, groff depends on xlib6g today, it just lies about it. Upgraders with groff installed but not xlibs will get xlibs (and libxaw7) in the scenario under discussion but I don't think that's a big deal. It is the cost of maintaining a lie for so many years about groff's shared library dependencies. You may want to write up a debconf note template explaining that groff can be removed (leaving the new groff-base) package if the extra functionality of the new groff package is not desired. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk around branden@debian.org | on the Moon?" http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they were wearing heavy boots."
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