On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > > ISTR reading somewhere that Depends do not mean that the dependency is > > always configured before the package depending on it is configured, but > > only that it once was configured successfully. > > This is true. If A -Depends-> B and A is "installed" then at the time > when A became "installed", B was "installed", and B has never been > worse than "unpacked" at any time since then.
Ah, thanks for the detailed explanation. > The alternative would make it impossible to upgrade B without > deconfiguring A first. The resulting churn would be very undesirable. Indeed. bye, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.10.1404081809120.15...@tglase.lan.tarent.de
