Re: Leftovers from etch installations

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:41:27AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> I'm working on a package that has this dependency line:
> 
> apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | apache2
> 
> Is there any chance that users of apache|apache-ssl|apache-perl in etch who
> upgraded to lenny or later would still have them installed, or is it safe
> to assume I can set the dependency to just apache2?
> 
> I'm not sure whether to assume that because it's unavailable in lenny, it
> will have been upgraded, or just left as it is (assuming nothing else has
> been installed that depends on apache2, of course).

A package for Lenny/main cannot depend on apache, since it is not in
Lenny/main.

On Lenny, compare apt-cache rdepends apache / apache2.

-- 
Simon Paillard