On Thursday 22 March 2007 00:28, Joey Hess wrote: > The problem with this check is that it's possible for a package to have > an error template, not depend on any special version of debconf, and > still detect if debconf doesn't understand the template, and fall back > to some other behavior, such as using a note template, or even > converting the error template into a note template on the fly.
Right. At least we're on the safe side. IMHO, if (or since) it's impossible to accurately detect what version is needed, it's better to generate a too strict dependency and let the maintainer override it if his code can cope with the lack of the feature concerned, than the other way around. I think that would make the autogenerated dependency useful in more cases. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgpD06KjuRC0y.pgp
Description: PGP signature
