On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > "Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> Seems to me that this should be at least a bug report on alsa-utils. > >>> I'm surprised that there would be a need for a lintian check for it, > >>> but > >>> I guess it's better than letting such bugs go unnoticed. > >>I can add one; it's not a lot of overhead given that lintian already has > >>a > >>framework for checking for bad dependencies. It's basically just another > >>branch in an if statement. > >>What's the precise check? Any package depending on python-minimal should > >>receive an error (or a warning?) > Based on Vorlon's message: > If (package depends on python-minimal) and (package is not essential) then > ERROR. No, that's not what I said. The python-minimal package is designed to be used *as* an Essential package, not *by* Essential packages. Nothing, essential or not, should depend on it in Debian, whether or not python-minimal itself gets marked as Essential: yes. (As long as python-minimal is not essential, you don't depend on it because it shouldn't be installed without python; if python-minimal *is* essential, you don't depend on it because you don't declare dependencies on essential packages.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
