See detailed discussion in
Bug#212034: Debian Perl Policy manual uses dependency backwards,
especially the ends of my last two messages, regarding ambiguity of
the terminology (even if we continue to disagree on the rest of it).
Daniel
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Thomas Hood wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:24, Daniel B. wrote in part:
Debian seems to use the word dependency backwards a lot, making
things confusing and hard to understand.
[...]
If A depends on B, then A is a
dependency (A is dependent on B). B is _not_ a dependency
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
reassign 212028 general
thanks
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:36:03PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
apt-cache and its manual page uses the word dependency backwards.
This error makes the documentation hard to understand.
apt's documentation is consistent with everything
Package: general
Version: n/a?
Debian seems to use the word dependency backwards a lot, making
things confusing and hard to understand.
Per the The American Heritage Dictionary (via
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dependency), a dependency
is:
1. Dependence.
2. Something
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