Bug#42052: PROPOSAL] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail

[ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij)]

On 1999/08/04, Joseph Carter wrote:

> If base-files' postinst will always be run before the postinst for a MTA
> depending on it, then a pre-dep is not needed.  It was my understanding
> that dpkg could get confused this way and run things in the wrong order.
> If we can be sure of this and it is guaranteed to be so, a pre-dep is not
> needed.

>From the Packaging manual, section 8.2:

     Thus `Depends' allows package maintainers to impose an order in which
     packages should be configured.

     `dpkg' will not configure packages whose dependencies aren't
     satisfied.

If dpkg does run postinsts in the wrong order, then we might just as well 
turn all depends fields into pre-depends.

	- Ruud de Rooij.
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