On Jun 03, Piotr Lewandowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Debian Policy Manual states that 'Depends' declares an absolute dependency.
> This is not the case with ifupdown as it works fine without it. Thus, I 
> propose
> to loosen it to 'Recommends'.
Please discuss this on debian-devel@, I am not inclined to make this
change myself.

> Furthermore, the absolute dependency enforces an indirect one on net-tools.
> I could happily live without net-tools, as I use iproute2 exclusively, but 
> many
> programs require /etc/services and /etc/protocols to exist.
Me too, but you will have to discuss this with the ifupdown maintainer
(good luck).

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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