>> Packages like perl-base and ncurses-base are definitely not
>> needed to build a Hello World type package.
> Yes they are, as without them the system is broken.
The system is also broken if awk isn't installed. libc6.postinst and
dpkg.postinst use it, for example.
I think, the on
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 12:48:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote to -devel:
> Here's an interesting hypothetical question we came up with at the
> office:
>
> Suppose a .deb is released that does rm -rf / in its prerm. We know it
> has been installed on a bunch
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:57:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> In the IRC discussion I said I would write up a proposal, so here it
> is. I've used the word `standards' everywhere instead of `policy'; I
> think this would be a good renaming, because it would emphasise that
> we're trying to do tec
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