Hilko Bengen wrote: > Jefferson Cowart <jeff@cowart.net> writes: > > > Package: amavis-ng > > Version: 0.1.6.3-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Between 0.1.6.2 and 0.1.6.3 the dependancy on debconf was changed > > which is undocumented. The result is that it doesn't install on > > current stable. Either the change should be listed in the change log > > or not made. > > The packages I provide are supposed to work on unstable. > > I put the versioned Depends: in because of the following Lintian > warning: > > W: amavis-ng: init-script-suggests-versioned-depends postinst > N: > N: dpkg-reconfigure only stops daemons as of version 1.2.9. To ensure > N: dpkg-reconfigure can correctly start the daemon after reconfiguration, > N: packages should declare a dependency on that version of debconf. > > You are free to do a woody backport that takes out the versioned > dependency. This lintian warning is in error, and you should ignore it. The over-tight dependencies that it promotes are not worth the bother. See my response to bug #185721 for more details. (Speaking as the maintainer of both debconf, and debhelper, and wishing I'd remembered to bring this up with Sean last time we had lunch.) -- see shy jo
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