On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:41:27AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > I'm working on a package that has this dependency line: > > apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | apache2 > > Is there any chance that users of apache|apache-ssl|apache-perl in etch who > upgraded to lenny or later would still have them installed, or is it safe > to assume I can set the dependency to just apache2? > > I'm not sure whether to assume that because it's unavailable in lenny, it > will have been upgraded, or just left as it is (assuming nothing else has > been installed that depends on apache2, of course).
A package for Lenny/main cannot depend on apache, since it is not in Lenny/main. On Lenny, compare apt-cache rdepends apache / apache2. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org