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Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends



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* Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org> [150923 11:50]:
> Okay!!  But, btw, can someone enlighten the use case for Pre-Depends ??

If you need to use something from another package in your preinst
script, you will need a Pre-Depends.  For example, cron Pre-Depends:
dpkg because the preinst script for cron uses dpkg-maintscript-helper
which is in dpkg.

...Marvin


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