Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > I've noticed that a number of udebs depend on libc-udeb. Is there a > > reason? Either the udeb is installed onto the boot media, and library > > reduction gives it all the symbols it needs, or it is loaded later and > > libc-udeb should be loaded at the same time, and I don't think a > > dependency will help if it's not. > > I believe this dependency is added because the documentation states > somewhere that udebs should list all their dependencies with no > exceptions. I interpret this to mean that udebs should depend on > libc-udeb. If this is wrong, the documentation should be changed. That is not quite true for reduced libraries. > Why isn't libc-udeb recorded as already installed? No need to > download it if it is already installed, right? The package list contains an entry for something like libc6-reduced, but I would not put that in a udeb dependency. -- see shy jo
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