On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:34:35PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 19-Sep-03, 15:25 (CDT), "Craig P. Steffen" <craig@craigsteffen.net> wrote: > > This doesn't say "must declare a dependency on a real package". If that's > > somewhere else in the policy, then please let us know. > The fact that something isn't in policy doesn't mean it's not a bug. (Yeah, > way too many negatives in that sentence, let's try it again:) Not all bugs > are listed in policy. (There, that's better.) This isn't a bug though. The only time it's anything like a problem is when apt/dselect can't reliably choose a default to satisfy the dependency because there are two packages that provide the virtual package at the same (high) priority. This used to be the case with info and emacs at Standard priority, not sure if it still is. > Is there some reason that you seriously object to specifying a real > package before the virtual? Or are you just being difficult? It's something extra to maintain, and it becomes confusing if the real package goes away. > Fix the damn bug and move on. It's not a bug. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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