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Re: emacsen-common (was: Packages to install be default for Stretch)



On Wed, May 6, 2015, at 10:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2015-05-06 11:21:13 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > dpkg --purge \
> >   discover discover-data libdiscover2 installation-report laptop-detect \
> >   nano tasksel tasksel-data task-english acpi acpid acpi-support-base \
> >   isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common eject \
> >   nfacct libmnl0 libnetfilter-acct1 emacsen-common libsigc++-2.0-0c2a \
> >   pciutils usbutils libpci3 libusb-1.0-0 \
> >   dictionaries-common iamerican ibritish ienglish-common ispell wamerican
> > 
> > (And I wonder where emacsen-common comes from...)
> 
> dictionaries-common dependency:
> 
> dictionaries-common (1.23.4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * debian/control:
>     - Depend on (emacsen-common >= 2.0.8) as required by new
>       emacsen-common policy. This should not be a problem at all, since
>       emacsen-common is now a tiny package. No longer conflict with older
>       emacsen-common (Closes: #736572).
>     - Fix dictionaries-common-dev dependency on dictionaries-common.
> 
>  -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>  Thu, 22 May 2014 12:37:14 +0200
> 
> but I wonder why a policy of package B would dictate a A->B dependency.

Because package B is one of the target users of the functionality provided by package A.

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