Hi dpkg maintainers, developers, (Please follow up only to debian-devel@lists.d.o) I've just noticed that packages I've built recently have had the list of Depends reorganized into ASCIIbetical order in the generated binary .debs. I guess this was the next logical step after having dpkg-dev re-order Build-Depends internally (as was discussed in #457151). In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of changing the packages actually pulled in by apt-get or aptitude. I will be happy to post a couple such examples -- one hypothetical, one real -- if requested. (They are a bit long so I'm not including them in this email.) I would like to re-iterate the statement of Colin Tuckley at http://lists.debian.org/debian-toolchain/2008/01/msg00018.html to request that in the future, it would be very nice if dpkg maintainers (and everyone else, of course!) could warn developers in advance when new features may cause unexpected changes in Debian package behaviors. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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