Re: Bug#20717: diff does not use a Pre-Depends field.
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bug#20717: diff does not use a Pre-Depends field."):
> Ian, my appologies for using the "leader" address, but my archives are
> limited on the new drive and it was all I could find, and I wanted to cc
> you on this one.
That's OK. `ian@chiark' will do next time. I've CC'd this to
debian-policy.
...
> While I am certainly willing to apply the Pre-Depends, I would be equally
> willing to remove the "essential" from diff. We have talked about using it
> for melding config files, but to my knowledge there is no implimentation.
> Is there any other reason that I have missed that would require it to
> carry the "essential" flag?
Maintainer scripts may use `cmp'. I think we should allow them to.
Ian.
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