On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:32:29PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 29 décembre 2009 à 14:38 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : > > Well, this could be solved by a pre-depends on dnsutils | > > bind9-host. Pre-depends are often frowned upon, what do others think > > of this for this case? > > It is utterly and absolutely useless, since config scripts are executed > before pre-depends are installed.
Uhm, yes, you are right. So it wouldn't help anyway. Only possibility would be a versioned dependency (according to [1]) or to really do it in the postinst. Leads to the question which of the solution we'd prefer. Regards, Patrick [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#fr10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
