On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:01, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Why would there be an issue on depending on a more important package? > > > > Having an optional/misc package pre-depend on an important/base package > > seems like a non-issue to me. > > adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be > installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean, > could you please explain this?
If you depend on a less important package then it would be an indication that one of the packages in question has the wrong priority and therefore a bug. If you pre-depend on an equally important package then there may be issues related to circular-dependencies at some future time. If you have a non-base package pre-depend on a base package then the base package can never depend on it (base packages must not depend on non-base packages). If you have an "optional" package depend on a package that is "important" or "required" then again it would be a bug for any other package to have a dependency that results in a circle leading back to your package. So no matter what happens if you have postgres keep it's current section and priority (I can't see postgres becoming a base part of Debian or being considered important in the Debian priority system) then any problem related to your pre-depends will be a fairly obvious and unambiguous bug in someone else's package. I've recently learnt about some of these things the hard way... ;) -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page