On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:12 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Matthijs Mohlmann] > > But i'm not really sure about it because adduser is a base > > package. And i thought you don't have to depend on a base package. > > Where did you get that idea? Any references to documentation stating > this? > > I suspect you confuse this with build-dependencies, where you can drop > dependencies on build essesials. A package is supposed to have a > complete and correct list of dependencies for its binary packages. > Just look at how all binaries depend on libc. It is a base package, > but still listed as a dependency.
Furthermore, as adduser is used in preinst, the package must Pre-Depend on it (according to my reading of Policy 7.2). -- Gergely Nagy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
