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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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