Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to
> > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages
> > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb
> > package compressed that way.
>
> I'm not totally clear on why it needs to be a Pre-Depends and not
> simply a Depends. I expect dpkg cannot act on packages before it is
> configured (it has not created its database yet), so the "Pre-Depends
> must be satisfied before package is unpacked" effect is of no use. I
> don't think dpkg's preinst would need lzma, either.
When dpkg is just unpacked, it should work and be able to install all
packages. With a simple dependency, you have no guaranty that lzma will be
unpacked before dpkg.
That said, given that we don't have lzma compressed debs in lenny, it's
not really necessary either...
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