Julien Cristau wrote: > - debconf-i18n, liblocale-gettext-perl, libtext-charwidth-perl, > libtext-iconv-perl, libtext-wrapi18n-perl: since debconf 1.5.39 -i18n > is only a Recommends. Could probably be downgraded to important?
I think so. [1] has some context. > - mawk: one of the alternatives for base-files' Pre-Depends, so actually > pseudo-essential Good catch. That means the wording needs a little more work, to explain that only one of 'mawk' and 'gawk' (and one of 'sysv-rc' and 'file-rc', etc) has to be of priority required. (*) Maybe we should define it as a minimal set of packages implementing the essential functionality (ยง3.8) instead of defining it in terms of essential packages. Other ideas? Here's the current patch for reference. It doesn't address the point marked above with (*). [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debconf-devel/2012-March/003267.html diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml index 52dbb26a..81511730 100644 --- i/policy.sgml +++ w/policy.sgml @@ -757,9 +757,8 @@ <taglist> <tag><tt>required</tt></tag> <item> - Packages which are necessary for the proper - functioning of the system (usually, this means that - dpkg functionality depends on these packages). + Packages tagged <tt>Essential: yes</tt> and their + dependencies. Removing a <tt>required</tt> package may cause your system to become totally broken and you may not even be able to use <prgn>dpkg</prgn> to put things back, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713024610.GH2956@burratino
