Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reduces the memory wasted and speeds up processing in dpkg, dselect,
> apt, aptitude, britney, ...
It's also useful for simple humans looking at the dependencies of a
package: having all dependencies, including those on essential packages,
would c
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:33:49 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>The error is, if you don't *need* a specific version of the package, you
>>shouldn't depend on it at /all/. Essential means it's always available, so
>>there's no reason for
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:01:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
>>> Packages aren't moved out of essential.
>> So you can guarantee that bash will always be essential?
> I believe that we won'
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:01:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Packages aren't moved out of essential.
> So you can guarantee that bash will always be essential?
I believe that we won't ever remove *functionality* from the Essential
s
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:01:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Packages aren't moved out of essential.
>
> So you can guarantee that bash will always be essential?
Certainly not. :-) I'm saying that we don't plan to ever make it
non-
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Packages aren't moved out of essential.
So you can guarantee that bash will always be essential?
Greetings
Marc
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:06:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:33:49 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >The error is, if you don't *need* a specific version of the package, you
> >shouldn't depend on it at /all/. Essential means it's always available, so
>
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:33:49 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The error is, if you don't *need* a specific version of the package, you
>shouldn't depend on it at /all/. Essential means it's always available, so
>there's no reason for you to depend on it.
I have never understood t
Franz Pletz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only
>> such short one liners.
>
> Use lintian -i for more verbose output.
Mea culpa! I indeed missed -i completely. Next time I better learn ho
Hi,
> > Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only
> > such short one liners.
>
> The same explanation that Steve gave is found in the Debian Policy
> and/or the developer reference. Hopefully, you have read both of those.
If you use "lintian -i" you get a more detai
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only
> such short one liners.
Use lintian -i for more verbose output.
Cheers,
Franz
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.
> Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only
> such short one liners.
>
The same explanation that Steve gave is found in the Debian Policy
and/or the deve
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is
>> installed, why must this dependency be versioned?
>> If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues
>> an e
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is
> installed, why must this dependency be versioned?
> If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues
> an error message:
> depends-on-ess
Hi everybody,
if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is
installed, why must this dependency be versioned?
If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues
an error message:
depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version depends: util-linux
I
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