Bug#455602: debian-policy: Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.7.3.0
> Severity: minor
>
> Policy 7.2:
>>(The other three dependency fields, `Recommends', `Suggests' and
>> `Enhances', are only used by the various front-ends to `dpkg' such
>> as `dselect'.)
>
> Since apt uses Recommends now, and can show Suggests, perhaps it would
> make a better example here. In any case, dselect now by no means
> represents the most popular dpkg frontend.
Thanks for the report. I've applied a change to list apt and aptitude as
well as dselect to my arch repository.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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