[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jul 29, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Currently, lintian allows any combination of dependencies on the >> following packages to satisfy the dependency requirement from calling >> update-inetd in maintainer scripts: >> >> update-inetd inet-superserver openbsd-inetd rlinetd >> >> I gather update-inetd should be removed from that list. Is it >> otherwise correct? > openbsd-inetd and rlinetd should be removed too since they provide > inet-superserver (unless they are provided as alternatives to the > virtual package). So is anything ever valid other than openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver as a dependency? I keep getting confused on the rules around using virtual packages. Would rlinetd | inet-superserver be okay? Would inet-superserver all by itself be okay? >> Should no package ever depend on update-inetd unless it also provides >> inet-superserver? If so, I can add a lintian check for that. > Correct. Okay, I'll look at doing that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
