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Re: Woody & Shorewall Package missing a dependency (iproute)???



On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:38:41PM +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2002, 17:26:01, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> > I don't know about debian (just came back to linux from solaris) but
> > iproute2 only have to be installed if you use certain syntax/feature. it
> > is workeable without it. I guess it should be suggested and not
> > dependent.

Doesn't sound like it.

> > did you install it with apt or with dselect? (it's my understanding
> > that apt only install dependent packages and doesn't say anything
> > about suggested).
> 
> I installed shorewall with apt-get.  My sources.list points to stable.  
> 
> I have no problem installing iproute (I did this).  What I don't understand
> is why the shorewall Debian package didn't identify iproute as a necessary
> dependency.

It was bug #144698, fixed in unstable.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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