Re: Why diffutils.deb is essential and priority required?

2011-10-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-28 21:21 +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > Why does diffutils.deb priority required? > Why is it an essential package? The answer to first question is easy: because it is an Essential package, and all Essential packages are of Priority: required. For the second question, dpkg calls dif

Re: Why diffutils.deb is essential and priority required?

2011-10-28 Thread Erwan David
Le Fri 28/10/2011, Regid Ichira disait > Why does diffutils.deb priority required? > Why is it an essential package? > dpkg needs diff utilities for handling configuration files. That seems a good reason. -- Erwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Why diffutils.deb is essential and priority required?

2011-10-28 Thread Regid Ichira
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