On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:16:20PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. > >> As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's > >> a bug. > >> alsa-utils should depend on "python | python-minimal", or perhaps the > >> python packages should Provide python-minimal. > >> Does this seem right? > > Er... alsa-utils should be depending on python, *not* on python-minimal at > > all. The previous discussion of this package was that python-minimal exists > > only for the possibility of use as an Essential: yes package, should never > > be installed without python, and should not be used as a dependency by other > > packages. > Ok, should I file a bug report against it, or is some other solution > better? This sounds like a lintian situation... Seems to me that this should be at least a bug report on alsa-utils. I'm surprised that there would be a need for a lintian check for it, but I guess it's better than letting such bugs go unnoticed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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