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Subject: packaging manual shouldn't dictate dselect behaviour
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Package: packaging-manual
The current packaging-manual dictates how dselect reacts to relations
from packages. If you look at section 8.2 there are statements
such as:
`Recommends'
[...]
It is treated by `dselect' exactly as `Depends' is; this makes it
hard for the user to select things so as to leave `Recommends'
fields unsatisfied, but they are able to do so by being
persistent.
Similar statements are made for other relations.
I don't think the packaging-manual should dictate how dselect handles
relations. The current CVS version of dselect already changed its
behaviour somewhat making some of these statements false.
Wichert.
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From: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The section dealing with package relations in policy no longer
contains the offending paragraph about how dselect handles Recommends
et al, so this bug can be closed.
Julian
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