On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:47:03PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I'm not sure why libc6 is not essential, but since it is depended upon by > essential packages, it is promoted to essential status anyway. Nothing else > on that list would prevent things like dpkg from working. > > I'm copying debian-policy to see if there is some rationale for that > definition that I am not aware of.
Libraries can't be essential, because it would make it too hard to remove them when their sonames change. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
