Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Matthijs Mohlmann]
> But i'm not really sure about it because adduser is a base
> package. And i thought you don't have to depend on a base package.

Where did you get that idea?  Any references to documentation stating
this?

I suspect you confuse this with build-dependencies, where you can drop
dependencies on build essesials.  A package is supposed to have a
complete and correct list of dependencies for its binary packages.
Just look at how all binaries depend on libc.  It is a base package,
but still listed as a dependency.