Bug#293246: kppp: dependency on ppp

[Michail Bachmann <mb-reportbug@emeraldcity.de>]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:10, Adeodato Simó wrote:

>   kppp has an _absolute_ dependency on ppp (Christopher says so, and he
>   knows better than I), so there you go with the Depends. OTOH, see
>   Bug#289189 for an example where using Depends: would help some people,
>   but it is not done because the dependency is not absolute.

You are right. The problem is not in kppp, it should always have a Depends  
relation with ppp.

But as Christopher Martin already suggested the real solution should be a 
change in the dependencies of the meta-packages. This way all kind of users 
could use the meta-packages without any trouble.

>   You can always have a look at equivs and make a dummy kppp package.

Or even better, I could use it to create my very own meta-package, with just 
the right dependencies.
But I like Christopher's suggestion better, I think that is The Right Way(tm) 
to do it because it would solve the problem once and for all.

CU Micha