Recall, that there was a discussion on this topic between Feb 9 and Feb 18, with subject line "awk: essential virtual package?"
We discussed the suggestion that all essential packages have to use Pre-Depends instead of Depends. I remember that a lot of people agreed on this, but I also remember some other opinions. (James: I've read your mails on this topic again but now I'm unsure whether you disagreed with the suggestion itself, or just with the procedure of making policy through bug reports. Please clarify this again--I'd appreciate your input on this!) We should resolve this topic soon, since if we agree that all essentials should be changed with this respect, then we have to be quick! In this situation, I'd implement a Lintian check for this ASAP and file a few more `important' bug reports to get sure this is fixed before hamm is released. Any (quick) comments are appreciated! Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .