Hi Jörg! Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:27 +0000 schrieb Jörg Sommer: > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > package and installed some X package at the same time. > [...] > But x11-common and many other X packages use awk in their maintainer > scripts. [...] > So, must these packages pre‐depend on awk? No. They can rely on awk to be installed. awk is a dependency of package base-files, which is essential. By that, awk is always installed and x11-common can use awk in the maintainer scripts without the need to declare a dependency. Both the gawk and mawk packages provide the virtual package awk, so as long as base-files is concerned, either one satisfies the dependency. Best regards Manuel
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