On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:50:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenf...@debian.org> writes: > > > Debconf or another tool that implements the Debian Configuration > > Management Specification will also be installed, and any versioned > > dependencies on it will be satisfied before preconfiguration begins. > > Oh, sorry, I didn't think to check the footnote. > > However, I think you're reading the wrong meaning into the footnote. "It" > here refers to "Debconf or another tool that implements...."
Hm, yeah, this could be. > In other > words, what the message is saying is that if your package has a versioned > dependency on debconf, you're guaranteed to get that version of debconf, > not some other, before the config script of the package is run. Oh.. ouch. This indeed makes sense. Too bad that natural language is sometimes to ambigious ;) Thanks for enlightening me, best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
