On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:47:54AM +0200, Ruud de Rooij wrote: > > If base-files' postinst will always be run before the postinst for a MTA > > depending on it, then a pre-dep is not needed. It was my understanding > > that dpkg could get confused this way and run things in the wrong order. > > If we can be sure of this and it is guaranteed to be so, a pre-dep is not > > needed. > > >From the Packaging manual, section 8.2: > > Thus `Depends' allows package maintainers to impose an order in which > packages should be configured. > > `dpkg' will not configure packages whose dependencies aren't > satisfied. > > If dpkg does run postinsts in the wrong order, then we might just as well > turn all depends fields into pre-depends.
Okay, you're right. See what all this arguing does to one's brain?
Depends it is, since Pre-depends is clearly not needed.
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acme-cannon (3.1415) unstable; urgency=low
* Added safety to prevent operator dismemberment, closes: bug #98765,
bug #98713, #98714.
* Added manpage. closes: #98725.
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