Re: Proposal for a new debian.control field

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Bruce Perens writes:
  Bruce>  My assumption was that you'd install _one_ 1.3 kernel package. Once
  Bruce> you did that, the pre-depends would succeed, even if you'd
  Bruce> overwritten the kernel with a development one.

But that misses on the finer points as the post-1.3.58 requirement for apmd,
for example.

An empty kernel-package sounds like a good idea. Maybe we have to provide one
for every major code change (eg when the proc format changed so that procps
0.98 was broken).

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd