Re: Intend to add PreDepends: to kbd

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> writes:

> As an information, I intend to add the following line to kbd's
> "control" file:
> 
> PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.4.0.21)
  ^^^^^^^^^^ <-- Should be Pre-Depends
 
> This is because I use in postinst the new "runlevel S" feature of
> update-rc.d.

You don't need a Pre-Depends for something you use in a postinst, just
declaring a dependency should be sufficient.  (dpkg won't try to
configure kbd before dpkg >= 1.4.0.21 is unpacked, thus the new
update-rc.d will be available).

-- 
James


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