Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.62.0508072123550.5728@wr-linux02> you wrote:
> Moreover I wonder what the criteria of db_installdebconf are to
> be clever enough to ignore the lines
> 
>    . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
>    db_get "shared/zope/restart" || true
> 
> in the postinst file because the package depends from a package
> that just depends from debconf?

Well, I am not sure it is a good idea to resolv the dependencies that way.
Each package should declare all its dependencies directly. (And only its
own)

Gruss
Bernd