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Bug#237565: discover: Discover should not depend on ash



On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:10:04PM +0800, sltam@int.mypem.com wrote:
> Package: discover
> Version: 1.5-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> discover has dependency:
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdiscover1, debconf (>> 0.5), ash | dash
> 
> But ash has dependency:
> Pre-Depends: dash
> 
> So "ash | dash" is misleading.
> 
> Look at this example:
> 
> # apt-get install discover
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ash dash discover discover-data libdiscover1
> 
> # apt-get install dash discover
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   dash discover discover-data libdiscover1

I imagine ash is there so that it's easy to build discover for stable
and have it work (stable didn't have dash). The easiest fix would be to
switch the order and make the dependency 'dash | ash'.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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