Re: essential packages and Pre-Depends
'Santiago Vila wrote:'
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>FYI: I have submitted ("grave") bugs against all essential packages not
>using the Predepends: header.
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>There was already a discussion on this for the gzip case, so I consider
>this has been already discussed.
But gzip is needed by dpkg to unpack .debs. Several of these other
packages are "essential" for other reasons.
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