On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 12:36:25AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > > IMHO this will lead to spurious Depends: being added to packages > > simply to satisfy 5.6. > > That would the tail wagging the dog. Packages which already depend on > a sibling package don't need an additional copy of the copyright. I > don't think maintainers would really apply the rule backwards like > that.
There was at least one library where the libc5 version depends on the libc6 version, and I can't see any reason for it other than the copyright. (I don't know whether that's been fixed now)
