Hi, On Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 15:13:54 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:38:46PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:44:56PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: > > > > >> Why? Is it really required to have _all_ questions in the postinst? > > > > > No, not all. There are 4 questions asked. > > > 1) brokers list, the list is received by the package-binary and the user > > > selects te broker he wants to use. For this I can use a dns-query (type > > > TXT) but dig and host are both not essential packages, so this still has > > > to go to the postinst. > > > > Well, this could be solved by a pre-depends on dnsutils | > > bind9-host. Pre-depends are often frowned upon, what do others think > > of this for this case? > > I've discussed this issue here with Martin Zobel-Helas and > he and I agree that in this limited case it could be a good solution: > > - It solves the problem in question (without a code duplication) > - A pre-depend loop is highely unlikely. After all we should slap > anybody pre-depending on aiccu very hard. > - A Pre-Depend on utilities that are likely to be installed anyway > seems like a not so great risk to avoid it.
Nevertheless there should be an extra thread on debian-de...@l.d.o that announces the intend to add a Pre-Depends for this package. Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster Public key http://zobel.ftbfs.de/5d64f870.asc - KeyID: 5D64 F870 GPG Fingerprint: 5DB3 1301 375A A50F 07E7 302F 493E FB8E 5D64 F870 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
