Re: Pre-Depends of #CDD#-common meta packages from cdd-common
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> * meta-package's .config script requires data from cdd-common
Yes.
> Answer: You can't. .config scripts can only depend on Essential
> packages plus debconf, and Pre-Depends doesn't help.
>
> * meta-package's .postinst script requires data from cdd-common
>
> Answer: Use Depends, which is sufficient.
This was the old solution which is suboptimal because asking questions
in postinst script sucks. The question can only be asked when cdd-common
is installed because they call scripts from this package to aquire data
which are needed for the questions. Would you go with this solution
and write a lintian.override to declare that this is intended?
> The only reason you should need Pre-Depends is if the meta-package's
> .preinst script requires data from cdd-common.
>
> Does this make sense?
Yes. It means that I have to stick to the solution I found before and
there seems to be no way to enhance the situation.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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