Bug#381835: initrd-tools: Cleanup of dependencies: stat

[Stefan Huehner <stefan@huehner.org>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:33:28AM +0200, Stefan Huehner wrote:
> > Package: initrd-tools
> > Version: 0.1.84.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > your package specifies a dependency of
> > "coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.1.9) | stat (>= 3.0)".
> > 
> > Of those fileutils and stat are dummy transitional packages. They have
> > been this way before sarge. Thus these are not needed for upgrade
> > issues.
> > 
> > Please consider simplifying this dependency to only list "coreutils".
> 
> Notice that initrd-tools will probably not be part of etch anyway, and will
> die once the last of the 2.4 kernels are removed from sid/etch.

Then an upload for this isn't really necessary. Thanks for the quick
response.

Regards,
Stefan