Re: [New pre-depends] SElinux support for findutils.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> upstream has included SEliux support in GNU findutils 4.5.7, i.e.:
> 
>        -context pattern
>               (SELinux only) Security context of the file  matches  glob  pat-
>               tern.
> 
>        -printf format
>               %Z     (SELinux only) file's security context.
> 
> This requires linkage against libselinux1. There is no problem with
> priorities, both packages are Priority: required.
> 
> Since findutils is essential, the respective dependency ends up in
> Pre-Depends. Which is why I am starting discussion on d-d. Personally
> I do not care a lot. I am not using SElinux but the feature has been
> explicitely requested by a user in #572809.

This is not a "new pre-depends" strictly speaking, as essential packages
using pre-depends on libraries has been standard practice for a lot of
time now, so I'd say: go ahead.