Re: Dependencies of Essential good enough for postrm?
Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org> writes:
> Hi!
> I just stumbled in a nasty bug in apache (stable) that used a
> non-essential package in its postinst. I looked if the same was still
> true for unstable, and found that apache2 uses also a script from a
> non-essential package (update-rc.d) and fails if it isn't present.
> Though, said script is in the (pre-)dependency chain of an essential
> package. I am quite sure that one can depend on the dependencies of
> essential packages being resolved when using the postrm, though as the
> package itself isn't itself essential at least aba wanted the point to
> be raised and be made clear for the release policy.
update-rc.d is one of those "virtual Essential" things, like awk.
sysvinit depends on either sysv-rc or file-rc, both of which provide
update-rc.d. Neither can be made essential itself, since then you can't
install the other, but in practice one or the other is part of the
essential set.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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