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predepends on libc6?



Bdale asks:
> In bug report 15091, Christian Meder suggests to me that I make gzip
> predepend on libc6.  It is not clear to me that this is a good thing
> to do.

Christian Meder is right.  Packages that are Essential (ie, ones
without which the packaging system breaks) should use Pre-Depends for
things that they absolutely must have to support the packaging system.

Ian.


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