Re: Bug#88307: Netbase needs to not depend on not-necessarily-needed packages.
>>>>> "Tollef" == Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:
Tollef> If I haven't done anything to the kernel from my Potato
Tollef> install, dpkg will think that I have 2.2.18pre21 (or
Tollef> something like that). If I then have upgraded to woody,
Tollef> and changed my kernel to 2.4, without using a package for
Tollef> that, dpkg will still think that I have 2.2.18pre21
Tollef> installed. However, I don't want to use ipchains, I want
Tollef> to use iptables. And I don't want ipchains installed at
Tollef> all. (Because I've something which detects whether
Tollef> iptables or ipchains is installed and I want it to use all
Tollef> the cool features of iptables and it checks ipchains
Tollef> before iptables.)
In which case, either one of the following would solve the
problem:
a) remove linux 2.2.x
b) recommends should be used instead of depends.
open to discussion...
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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