> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:20:13PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> > Where is this documented? Please note that the policy don't apply to >> > udebs. >> It is not handled by apt. And apt is used to build d-i images. >> It works only because currently libraries are required to be installed on >> host to build image, and apt uses information from host's status while >> resolving udeb dependences. > > Pardon, it is used to built the images, not to resolve dependencies.
Isn't dependency resolution a part of image building process? >> > Because udebs current are not able to have the same name than debs. >> So why udebs don't depend on libc-udeb, libdebian-installer4-udeb, etc? > > Why should they do that? To be semantically consistent? Currently semantics of Depends: field in udeb is unclear. And anything that has unclear semantics but works is called a hack IMO. I believe hacks are dangerous in any system that plans to exist for a long period of time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
