On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:20:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I'd say actually that any package using /var/mail should depend on the > > approprate base-files and we could do this for potato even. > > You would have to use Pre-Depends, because as soon as you > unpack a mail reader using /var/mail, /var/mail would be used, even > if base-files has not created the symlink yet. > > I dislike the idea of packages pre-depending on a specific version of > base-files, this imposes a certain order in the upgrade. > > I think there is no hurry and we should stick to /var/spool/mail for > potato. Even if we do this we must still declare the dependency I would imagine. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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