Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 04:48:14PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> >> recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then
> >> I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run
> >> apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk
> >> package and installed some X package at the same time.
> > <snip>
> >> But x11-common and many other X packages use awk in their maintainer
> >> scripts.
> > <snip>
> >> So, must these packages pre‐depend on awk?
> > No, but I think we may have a bug in base-files here that no one's ever
> > noticed before.
> Should I send a bug report for base-files?
I've reassigned the existing bug report.
Cheers,
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