Re: missing dependencies

[Mary Honeycutt <mkhoney@bellsouth.net>]

Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
> 
> >   Pinepgp depends on pine, however there is no pine package in
> > the archive (and won't be due to license issues). (Perhaps this
> > could depend on the pine src/diffs instead.)
> 
> This is not pinepgp's fault. The dependency is right, it should depend on
> the actual pine package, the one you can build from the Debian pine
> sources, and not on the pine src/diffs packages, because they do not
> provide pine (they just supply the source so that you can compile it).
> 
I understand why the dependency is there, however, the problem
remains.  How to get debian-cd to accept a package with a 
dependency that doesn't exist.  vchpkw has the same problem with
qmail.

Cheers

MaryK