Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:28:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > [...] > > Hmmm, are you sure that this paragraph in the manual makes sense???? > > I guess if a zope package depends from zope all relevant debconf information > > is available and copying the same stuff over and over makes no sense at all > > except from enhancing the probability of errors. > > Sorry, i now realize that i did not in consider policy explanation on what > Depends field mean. > > Perheps some sort of note in that paragraph of debconf-devel would have been > useful. I mean something like "Including the shared question, is not required > if all packages depends on the one which provides the template (see section > 7.2. of Debian policy)" That's not at all accurate. Every package that has a config script that expects to use a template must include a copy of the template in the package. Dependencies will not be honored at preconfigure time. -- see shy jo
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