Hi, not sure if this already has been answered/addressed... On Tuesday 11 March 2008 12:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > 1. Lintian: > $ lintian -i education-desktop-other_0.828_i386.deb > E: education-desktop-other: depends-on-x-metapackage recommends: xorg > N: > N: Packages that are not themselves metapackages must not depend on > X N: Window System metapackages. > N: > N: The metapackages xorg, xorg-dev, x-window-system, > x-window-system-dev, N: and x-window-system-core exist only for the > benefit of users and N: dependencies for other metapackages and should > not be used in regular N: package dependencies. > N: > > --> Whoever inserted this dependency should fix this. I dont see a problem. education-desktop-other is a metapackage and thus can depend on the xorg metapackages. IMO a lintian overwrite is in order. > Congratulations - you reached the end of this mail. I would be > really happy if I would not have consumed all your spare time and > you are able to comment on this. :) I havent commented on #3 and #4 - but I assume there are still questions left. I'd suggest we hold a session in Extremadura early (ie on day one) to discuss this ?! regards, Holger
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