Bug#683847: unblock: sgml-base/1.26+nmu4
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:23:17PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Can you provide a pointer to the dpkg pre-dependency discussion?
To comply with the Debian policy I asked[33] about the pre-dependency on
debian-devel@l.d.o and Ian Jackson suggested[38] that this should be
fixed in dpkg instead. I therefore pulled[43] in debian-dpkg@l.d.o as
the maintainer address for dpkg. I never saw an answer nor any follow up
question from a dpkg maintainer. Given that dpkg is highly critical
infrastructure and the freeze I concluded that the dpkg maintainers
would not be able to implement the necessary changes in a timely manner.
In addition a number of people on #-mentors suggested that a
Pre-Dependency on dpkg shouldn't be too bad since dpkg should be
upgraded early in any case. The desktop-base package was given as an
example for adding that pre-dependency without discussion.
Helmut
[33] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#33
[38] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#38
[43] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#43
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