Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:41:01AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't think "but we don't want to make adduser Priority: required" is > > a good enough reason to add global static IDs; and passwd doesn't need > > to be made Essential just because an Essential package depends on it > > (Essent

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:33:23AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Since libuuid1 is essential, every system will end up with a libuuid > > user/group, so why not just add it to base-passwd instead of creating it > > dynamically ? >

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Since libuuid1 is essential, every system will end up with a libuuid > user/group, so why not just add it to base-passwd instead of creating it > dynamically ? In general I want to avoid almost all further creation of global static

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:16:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > So e2fsprogs which is "Essential: yes" depends on libuuid1, so > > libuuid1 is effectively "Esse

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > So e2fsprogs which is "Essential: yes" depends on libuuid1, so > libuuid1 is effectively "Essential: yes", right? So if I add a > dependency on passwd, it will effecti