Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > This paragraph was added to fix Bug#50832 but if we follow it strictly > then all the awk packages are in violation, since they use the > alternative mechanism to update the awk symlink in /usr/awk and > therefore "do not provide their core functionality until they are > configured".
I'd rather document awk to be an exception to the clause because unilaterally loosening this clause will require us to further patch the debootstrap phase. Debootstrap (the Debian installation system) special-cases awk, and creates a symlink. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/