Re: sometimes-dependency, linux-image-2.6.18-1-486

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> 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

You can also use

Depends: yarid (>= 1.2-3) | initramfs-tools | initrd-toos | foo | bar

Any one of them will do but if yarid is used then the version must be
new enough.

MfG
        Goswin