Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Objection. There is no way to create any user in preinst as the tool
> >> to do so is not in an essential package.
> >
> > This is what pre-depends are for.
>
> A single pre-dependency is not enough. You will need to convert all
> of adduser's dependencies into pre-dependencies, and probably most of
> the things it depends on as well.
No. adduser can still use normal depends. Pre-depends just means the dep'd
on package has to be configured. And depends are for this exactly.
You're confusing pre-depends and essentialness.
> You also need to ensure that adduser and anything that it depends on to
> function are always available at all times just like libc6.
You're confusing pre-depends and essentialness.
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