Martijn Grendelman <mart...@iphion.nl> writes:

> The reason I asked is, that I was trying to install a home-made
> backport of Puppet 2.6.3 on an Ubuntu Hardy machine, and it complained
> about a missing (and unavailable) dependency. Libaugeas was introduced
> in Ubuntu in the Karmic (9.10) release.

On Debian, Ubuntu (and other .deb based distributions), you can install
"equivs", which helps you make packages which provide missing
dependencies.

> Moving libaugeas back to the 'recommends' section fixed that for me,
> but I was curious if there were any pitfalls with that (apart from
> Augeas resources not working, obviously).

Apart from that, and probably failed tests in the "puppet-testsuite"
package, there should be none.

-- 
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
(fnord)

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