This one time, at band camp, Gunnar Wolf said: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt dijo [Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:47:45AM +0100]: > > > Why exactly do you need a pre-depends to use a perl module in postinst? > > Because: > > gwolf@lactop:/tmp/bonsai-1.3+cvs20060111/debian$ grep use.*File bonsai.postinst > use File::Find; > > The postinst is a Perl file. You need Pre-Depends only when a package must be configured before your postinst is run. In the case of a perl module, I would think it only needs to be unpacked. > At least, Chora2, Cvsweb, Vcsweb and Viewcvs look quite similar in > purpose. Why should we keep Bonsai? That's a seperate question, and one I am not qualified to answer. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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