Re: sometimes-dependency, linux-image-2.6.18-1-486
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:08:17PM -0500, Clarence Risher wrote:
> of yaird. Should that be filed as a bug against
> linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 even though its not always a dependency?
Yes.
> And that leads me to the general question, on the topic of
> sometimes-dependencies. Does debian have any facility to handle such?
> linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 doesnt technically depend on yaird, since it
> can use any mkinitrd script (of which there are many, provided by other
> packages), but when it does pick mkinitrd.yaird then it requires an up
> to date version of yaird.
Conflicts. The package doesn't depend on yaird, but it does (should)
conflict with insufficient versions.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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