Re: New Package: spamdb 0.1 (source all)
Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org> writes:
> Package: spamdb
> Version: 0.1
> Architecture: all
> Pre-Depends: ed
> Depends: wget
1) Why does this *Pre-*Depend on ed?
" Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed *and*
configured before it can be installed. In this case, you'll have to
specify a `Pre-Depends' entry for the package.
You must not specify a `Pre-Depends' entry for a package before this
has been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus
about doing that has been reached."
[ Debian Policy (2.3.0.0) 2.3.4 ]
Not only did you not discuss this on debian-devel, the pre-dependency
is totally spurious, it's used in the postinst, which will only be run
if ed is installed, if you had used a normal dependency.
2) And why *again* are you blatantly ignoring policy about announcing
your intention to upload new packages?
" you should post about your intentions to work on something to avoid
duplicated effort."
[ Developers Reference (0.1) 1.1 ]
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