On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on > > libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1, > > hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2. > > > > If there are not objections I'm going to report serious bugs about them too. > > (We don't want another mess like the perl upgrade to happen, do we?) > > Sounds sensible. > > Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries > to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which > means Depends: generally end up the same as Pre-Depends: anyway, no?
Don't know, ask Jason :-) In either case, we should not rely on apt being used by everybody. The user should not be able to screw the system by using dpkg-ftp, or even dpkg on the command line, so the Pre-Depends thing is a must anyway.
