Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > ISTR reading somewhere that Depends do not mean that the dependency is
> > always configured before the package depending on it is configured, but
> > only that it once was configured successfully.
>
> This is true. If A -Depends-> B and A is "installed" then at the time
> when A became "installed", B was "installed", and B has never been
> worse than "unpacked" at any time since then.
Ah, thanks for the detailed explanation.
> The alternative would make it impossible to upgrade B without
> deconfiguring A first. The resulting churn would be very undesirable.
Indeed.
bye,
//mirabilos
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