On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 16:12 US/Eastern, David R. Morrison wrote:
At that point, it might be possible to switch which package is essential
from gettext to gettext2. However, if other packages have *assumed*
that every essential package is present and doesn't need to be declared,
then it won't be possible to make this switch.
My point is there should already be a versioned dependency on gettext (because of libintl) created by dpkg-shlibdeps (or the Fink equiv.)
For example, apt-cache showpkg libc6 (an essential package, of course) shows:
$ apt-cache showpkg libc6
Package: libc6
Versions:
2.2.5-11.5(/var/lib/apt/lists/ security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/ var/lib/dpkg/status)
2.2.5-11.2(/var/lib/apt/lists/ http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
Reverse Depends: nessus,libc6 2.2.4-4 smake,libc6 2.2.4-4 libber0,libc6 2.2.4-4 libnasl1,libc6 2.2.4-4 bidwatcher,libc6 2.2.4-4 smartmontools,libc6 2.2.4-4 cdrdao,libc6 2.2.4-4 libconfig0,libc6 2.2.4-4 libgd-tools,libc6 2.2.4-4 nessus-plugins,libc6 2.2.4-4 amap,libc6 2.2.4-4 libgd2-xpm,libc6 2.2.4-4 gtk-gnutella,libc6 2.2.4-4 nessusd,libc6 2.2.4-4 tuxtime,libc6 2.2.4-4 ... (there are 5427 lines total)
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