On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:23:17PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > Can you provide a pointer to the dpkg pre-dependency discussion?
To comply with the Debian policy I asked[33] about the pre-dependency on debian-devel@l.d.o and Ian Jackson suggested[38] that this should be fixed in dpkg instead. I therefore pulled[43] in debian-dpkg@l.d.o as the maintainer address for dpkg. I never saw an answer nor any follow up question from a dpkg maintainer. Given that dpkg is highly critical infrastructure and the freeze I concluded that the dpkg maintainers would not be able to implement the necessary changes in a timely manner. In addition a number of people on #-mentors suggested that a Pre-Dependency on dpkg shouldn't be too bad since dpkg should be upgraded early in any case. The desktop-base package was given as an example for adding that pre-dependency without discussion. Helmut [33] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#33 [38] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#38 [43] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678902#43 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121007202053.ga4...@alf.mars
