"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:52:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> You mean the postinst script should succeed even if the program is not >> able to work? This doesn't fit with the meaning of "Depends", because >> other packages declare a Depends exactly because they want to use the >> program, they want it to function. If they cannot rely on it's working >> after the postinst has completed successfully, this a severe bug IMO. >> > > What you are describing sounds like a Pre-Depends. That is, package y > Depends on package x being installed and properly configured before > package y can be installed.
No, it's just Depends. Package y depends on package x being installed *and* properly configured before y can be configured or used. If package x is marked as "properly configured", but it cannot be used (by package y's postinst, or during normal operation of y) because of the conffile problem, this is a serious bug. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
