On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
>>>> Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation
>>>> detail, no? So it just should not be the responsibility of the caller.
>>>
>>> It should as you can't assume that your dependencies are configured when
>>> your
>>> own package is being configured (Debian Policy 3.5).
>>
>> Where in 3.5 do you read that?
>
> Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and configured
> before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a Pre-Depends entry
> for the package.
>
> We have exactly this case here. lsb_release needs to be configured first.
3.5 is an overview. 7.2 has the details:
Depends
This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be
configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field
have been correctly configured.
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