On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> You can kind-of enforce it. ``Hey, this package does stuff in its postinst,
> get rid of the Essential tag, now.'' This is enforcable since it's already
> the case, and what we've got so far works.
I agree, essential packages by definition cannot stop
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 02:09:23PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> > +Further, since these packages may be implicitly required by any
> > +number of other packages, including dpkg itself, they must function
> > +correctly even while unconfigured.
> You
Anthony Towns writes:
> bash is an Essential: yes package, and recently it was changed so that
> /bin/sh was only there after the postinst was run.
Which closed an RC bug, IIRC. Seems like a damned-if-you-do, damned-
if-you-don't situation.
> +Further, since these packages may be implicitl
Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> +Further, since these packages may be implicitly required by any
> +number of other packages, including dpkg itself, they must function
> +correctly even while unconfigured.
You can't enforce this. At the very least there be an `as far as
posisble' sta
>> +Further, since these packages may be implicitly required by any
>> +number of other packages, including dpkg itself, they must function
>> +correctly even while unconfigured.
>
>Seconded.
[ I don't have the original since I was cced on the bug submission, so
procmail ate it for hav
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:49:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> From: Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
> +Further, since these packages may be implicitly required by any
> +number of other packages, including dpkg itself, they must function
> +correctly even while unconfigured.
Se
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
First, some context:
bash is an Essential: yes package, and recently it was changed so that
/bin/sh was only there after the postinst was run. This works fine for
apt, but breaks just about every other dselect method in existence.
The following is Joel K
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