On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:39:20PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Regardless, I don't think this bug is sufficient to claim that sendmail > > *must* continue to depend on rmail for sarge in order to support partial > > upgrades. AFAIK, the only package in the archive which depends on > > rmail's functionality is uucp, and it had an incorrect dependency in > > woody anyway, because Depends: m-t-a did not guarantee the presence of > > rmail then, either. > > I would submit that users can rely on functionalities available in a > package without an explicit package dependency. > > So if sendmail provided a rmail executable, upgrading to sarge should > not removing it silently. I would second that, on the basis that there is precedence in a fairly high number of other cases, so high a number in fact that it would be fair to call this "established practice". Try "apt-cache search transition remove" once. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune
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