Re: Bug#33430: Release-critical Bugreport for February 16, 1999
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:18:28 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> said:
> On Tuesday 16 February 1999, at 17 h 22, the keyboard of Ian Redfern
> <redferni@logica.com> wrote:
>> But, wmaker_0.20.3-5.deb has a Recommends: asclock and wmaker is (I
>> believe) on the master list.
> OK, I see. The user probably used the Select option of dselect,
> accepted the Recommendations that dselect proposed and crack!
> The current check of the pre-defined selections does not use
> Recommends: and hence does not check it. Because it is intended to
> be used standalone, and NOT to be supplemented with choices from
> dselect. You should just (this is documented) go to Install,
> skipping Select.
Well, optimally, the master2files stuff *should* in fact check
depends. Sure, the user may skip the 'Select' step in dselect, but
you can be sure they'll run that step at some later point.
I would suggest, for your sanity, you start using pkg-order to help
you check dependancies/recommends? Would that work?
I agree it's not something we're likely to fix at this point for slink.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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