* Guillem Jover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080723 05:08]: > Summary of the thread starting at: > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/04/msg00003.html> > > The only valid concerns rised in that thread were from Anthony, and I > think I gave reasons to dismiss them (found below). > > The rest were concerning policy decisions on when to use lzma > compression, which are not relevant to this particular decision. > > So, I'd like to ask the Release Team, if it would be fine with you to > add such Pre-Depends for the next dpkg upload targetting lenny.
I currently don't see the strict reasoning why dpkg should pre-depend on lzma. > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 06:18:36 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after > > > > lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package > > > > compressed that way. > > > > > > Hrm. Alternatively, the packages _do_ pre-depend on lzma though; and > > > you're aiming to avoid that by making lzma Essential:yes -- in the same > > > way packages that pre-depend on perl or bash don't need an explicit > > > dependency. > > > > Well not really Essential, it's going to be pulled like that yes, but > > other derivatives, might want to disable it. And I agree with Chris that > > it makes sense for dpkg to Pre-Depend on lzma as it's the one calling > > it, and that's an internal implementation detail, in case there's a > > liblzma in the future and we'd switch to using it, packages should not > > require to be changed. What advantage would we (as in Debian) have if dpkg pre-depends on lzma, instead of the packages pre-depending on lzma? If there isn't an real and strong advantage, I'd rather think it's better to not do it. And, BTW, if dpkg pre-depends on lzma, lzma is basically essential. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
