severity 307281 important thanks On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:42:56AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > package: quagga > severity: serious > Version: 0.98.3-1
> When installing quagga with "aptitude install quagga", the amd64-kernel gets > also installed. But the server is plain i386. Installing quagga with apt-get > works just fine. So I asked Daniel Burrows, the aptitude maintainer, if this > is a known bug in aptitude. > He replied "This is a bug in quagga, which violates policy 7.4 (last > paragraph) by not listing a real package first in its dependency on > kernel-image. It doesn't show up in apt-get because apt-get doesn't honor > Recommends." Typically, one doesn't depend on kernel-images at all, because satisfying this dependency (or Recommends:) does not ensure a running kernel of that version. Anyway, this is not a release-critical issue for sarge. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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