[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Lintian error: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version bash



On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Depends: bash
> But doing this, lintian gives the warning:
> E: tzwatch: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version bash
> 
> I can't find much in Debian policy about this, so I'd like to ask, what
> does this error mean, and why is it an error?  Is it correct that I do not

Bash is an essential package, so it MUST be always installed in the system.
You should not depend: on essential packages, unless you need a versioned
dependency.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



Reply to: