Re: transitional packages in Etch -- update

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:19:01AM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> 2) the rest of the packages (marked by the red cross in a circle in
> the wiki) have some dependents, for example:

> $ wajig dependents ssh-krb5
> c libkrb53
> r libpam-ssh
> c openssh-client
> c openssh-server
> d ssh-askpass-gnome

> ("c" is conflict, "r" is replaces, "d" is depends)

> So I guess I should file bug reports against all of these packages too
> (to remove dependency on a transitional package), right?

Well, this is an 'or'ed dependency:

 Package: ssh-askpass-gnome
 Depends: [...] openssh-client | ssh (>= 1:1.2pre7-4) | ssh-krb5

So this could be dropped, but doesn't prevent removal of the transitional
package.

Cheers,
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