Re: Bug#65320: gettext: fails on postinst
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Quick questions:
>
> debian-emacs-policy says:
>
> D) Each add-on package must declare relevant dependencies on other
> packages (including other add-on packages). Note that add-on
> packages should not depend on emacsen-common directly, but rather
> on either the virtual package "emacsen" (see below), or some
> appropriate combination of flavors (i.e. Depends: emacs20 |
> emacs19). In addition, any tools needed by the install/remove
> scripts must be listed as package dependencies. For example,
> many add-on packages will probably use make in the install
> script, so they need to add "Depends: make" to their control
> file. emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove
> scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies.
>
> 1- So _can_ we depend directly on emacsen-common (Note that I wasn't
> doing that for a larger package that contained an Emacs mode, so I've
> learned something already).
Yes, I think policy should allow such dependency for packages containing
some emacs bits but that are completely usable without the emacs bits
(i.e. they contain other functionality other than the emacs part).
(gettext comes to mind :-).
> 2- 'install' is in the package 'fileutils' and not 'make'. Is that what
> was meant here?
It refers to the /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/<package> script,
provided by a <package> which uses emacsen-common infraestructure.
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