Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Should I included a dependency on this? I believe that the policy > manual says that essential packages don't need to be mentioned. But > this may not be useful in the case where the interface provided by an > essential package changes as in this case.
I ran into the same problem with one of my packages, and you're right, you shouldn't declare a dependancy. Guy Maor suggested to do something like: TMP=`tempfile` || TEMP="/tmp/$$" Of course to be safe, you should really use some directory other than /tmp/ on the right hand side. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
