Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: > > , > | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm > | scripts require the package to be present in order to run. > ` > > the word "sho

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do others also think this is an error in policy? Nobody would object if > I raise severity of such a bug and address it in an NMU (which I'm going > to do for a different RC bug, anyway)? I can answer the second question myself: According to http://releas

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
X-Posting to -policy, because this might be a bug in Policy. I'm not subscribed to -policy, please Cc me unless you keep -devel in. Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >>> Hi,

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joel Aelwyn writes: > > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > > SHOULD and MUST... > > >From debian-policy: >In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and >the ad

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: >> >> , >> | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm >> | scripts require the packag

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joel Aelwyn writes: > > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > > SHOULD and MUST... > > From debian-policy: >In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and >the adj

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Joel Aelwyn writes: > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > SHOULD and MUST... >From debian-policy: In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and the adjectives required, recommended and optional, are used to distinguish the

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: > > , > | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm > | scripts require the package to be present in order to run. > ` > > the