Re: essential packages and Pre-Depends
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> FYI: I have submitted ("grave") bugs against all essential packages
> not using the Predepends: header.
>
> There was already a discussion on this for the gzip case, so I
> consider this has been already discussed.
Well you're wrong. Would you please stop this *extremely* irritating
"file bugs, ask questions later" habit? gzip & tar etc. are a special
case; dpkg could die without the Pre-Depends. They are (as, IIRC, Kai
put it) extremely essential; diff, procps etc. are not. It clearly
states in policy that the use of Pre-Depends *must* be discussed and
consensus reached on debian.devel before being used[1], please
consider following debian policy and not trying to implement your own
policies via the bug tracking system.
[1] "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 2.4.0.0, 2.3.4)
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James
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