Re: python-minimal
Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org> writes:
> I'm playing paranoid here, but why don't you want to declare
> dependencies on essential packages?
The short answer is "because Policy 3.5 says they shouldn't." I'm not
positive about the exact rationale, though.
> If the package ceases to be Essential at some point in the future, some
> non-essential packages may still need it's functionality, but without
> this relationship being tracked, the package could easily disappear.
It's fairly unlikely that anything currently included in Essential will
ever be dropped from Essential in the future, at least without a lot of
warning and mass bug-filing on the packages that need to add dependencies.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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