Bug#267594: libc6 depends on bash

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:19:05PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> GOTO Masanori wrote:
> >Bash is required package, so minimum base system should have bash.  If
> >you don't use such debian base system, then libc6.postinst becomes
> >meaningless because you don't use the normal debian system.
> 
> I do not understand why you refuse to add this dependency
> to the control file. libc6 is a required package too (much more
> "required" than bash), but still it is listed in all affected
> headers, AFAICS.

Essential: yes packages do not need to be listed in dependency fields,
by definition, and it's considered somewhat bad style for them to be
listed; lintian complains about it, for instance. libc6 is not
Essential: yes (libraries cannot be), although bash is. See the Debian
Policy Manual.

In any case, most dependencies on libc6 are versioned, so even if it
were Essential: yes this would be irrelevant.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]