Serafeim Zanikolas <ser...@hellug.gr> writes:
> Perhaps a specific example might clarify the issue.
>
> - bogofilter (dummy package that only contains a symlink to
> /usr/share/doc/bogofiflter-common) depends on bogofilter-db
> - bogofilter-db is a virtual package provided by bogofilter-{bdb,sqlite,etc},
> - bogofilter-{bdb,sqlite,etc} depend on bogofilter-common
>
> The bogofilter binary package violates policy in that it symlinks a
> directory from a package it doesn't depend on directly, even though
> it's guaranteed that the /usr/share/doc/bogofilter symlink will always
> be correct. The proposed policy change would not require bogofilter to
> depend directly on -common, as the reason to do so is satisfied via an
> indirect dependency.
I guess I'm not understanding why you don't just make bogofilter depend
on bogofilter-common as well. What's the drawback?
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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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