On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Thus I would like to hear the opinion of other developers how to cope > with the following situation: > > Package A contains a client software or just depends from a browser > or something similiar. It depends from a server which is provided by > package B. I want to make sure that this server is accessible and > running to ensure that package A works.
You don't need to depend on B: you can create a package "B-access" that takes care to configure the system to access B and check that B is actually reachable, then you make A depend on B-access. Bye, Enrico
