Re: Bug#167425: debian-policy: package should not depend on fileutils
So how does the reference to the now-nonexistent fileutils package ever go
away?
Britton
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.7.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid
>
> The debian-policy package has this control line:
>
> Depends: fileutils (>=3D 4.0)
>
> In sid, fileutils has been subsumed into the coreutils package.
> Since a versioned dependency is not satisfied by a Provides:,
> having debian-policy installed forces one to keep the dummy
> fileutils package around.
>
> Please change the dependency line to read
>
> Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>=3D 4.0)
>
> This will permit removal of the dummy package without breaking
> upgrades.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux egil 2.4.19 #1 Thu Aug 15 11:07:52 PDT 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=3Den_US, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US
>
> Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
> ii coreutils [fileutils] 4.5.2-1 The GNU core utilities
> ii fileutils 4.5.2-1 GNU file management utilities
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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