Bug#196367: priority dependencies and alternatives

2011-02-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery dixit: >that clearly, but I'm quite confident that's the intention. Yes, thought so. However I was surprised to see it pop up in the list, and perhaps other packages are similarly affected, maybe not even this visible. So what now? Does ftpteam read here or do I contact them, and po

Bug#196367: priority dependencies and alternatives

2011-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > with the latest developer news I saw mksh was listed. However, mksh > needs to have dependencies on "debconf ($foo) | cdebconf ($bar)" in two > flavours – one is added so lintian doesn’t complain due to minimum > version requirements for certain features, the other is ad

Bug#196367: priority dependencies and alternatives

2011-02-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, with the latest developer news I saw mksh was listed. However, mksh needs to have dependencies on "debconf ($foo) | cdebconf ($bar)" in two flavours – one is added so lintian doesn’t complain due to mi- nimum version requirements for certain features, the other is added via misc:Depends from d