Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I want > to do now. If anybody objects I will just do it.
I have some reservations about using pre-dependencies on a package like adduser. Since adduser was not designed as something that worked at all times, a pre-dependency may not be sufficient to guarantee that it is working when your postinst runs. In particular, the packages that adduser itself depends on may not haven been configured at that time. For example, you may end up in a state where the passwd package is not operational due to a libpam upgrade. Please refer to the discussion that arose on debian-policy when this last came up. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt