On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:26 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > foo depends on foo-data. But foo-data does NOT depend on foo. > > So an "apt-get install foo-data", while being useless, is consistent > for dpkg. After that you would end up with a menu entry for foo but no > foo binary. If package foo-data is useless when foo is not installed, foo-data should depend on package foo. This follows from policy manual 7.2: "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality.". Or am I missing something here? Thijs
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