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Bug#794902: debian-policy: obsolete footnote about liblockfile1 dependency



Le Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:38:15PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
> 
> A footnote in §11.6 reads:
> 
> “You will need to depend on `liblockfile1 (>>1.01)' to use these [maillock
> and mailunlock] functions.”
> 
> This seems to suggest hardcoding shared library dependency in debian/control,
> which is a bad idea. Anyway, liblockfile 1.01 was released in 1999, so no
> version constraint is necessary.
> 
> Let's remove this footnote.

Hi Jakub,

good point, I agree.  I think that this footnote is obsolete and can be removed.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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