On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:57:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Ok, this one has been sitting here for too long already, so let's try > > to target the release for the 10th, short notice but I should have > > sent this a week ago already, and as we are going for experimental > > it should be fine. > I just realized that xz-utils and liblzma2 technically aren’t ready to > be pseudo-essential: they use Depends: instead of Pre-Depends: for > their dependencies. This doesn't follow. Only the essential packages themselves must be usable when not configured, which is why those packages use pre-dependencies, not dependencies. The packages which are *themselves* pre-dependencies don't need to have their dependencies promoted to pre-dependencies. > lzma has had the same problem for the last year, so I guess it’s not a > big deal in practice. I’ll prepare an upload fixing xz-utils tomorrow > morning. That's not a fix, and not appropriate to upload without consulting debian-devel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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