Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?
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?
Bye, Jörg.
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