Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?
Recai Oktas wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: awk is virtually essential: it can't be Essential: yes because that would prevent removing mawk in favor of gawk, but awk is a dependency of another essential package to ensure that you can use basic awk functionality without having to depend on it. Just to make things a little clearer, the above is the excerpt from the changelog of 'base-files' (an essential package): * Added Depends: awk, so that awk is a virtual essential package. A good explanation. That clears up my confusion. I was pretty sure it was something like that but just could not find it. Thanks! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Depends: awk -- Is that required?
I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative and mawk is Priority: required so I would not think so. But gawk provides awk and is Priority: optional but with a higher alternative priority too and so that required mawk is almost never used. (I always install gawk as awk for its better features.) If the package used gawk specific features then the decision would be easy. It would need to depend upon gawk. But it only uses basic awk features and so any of the alternatives is sufficient. Thanks for you knowledge in this. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative and mawk is Priority: required so I would not think so. But gawk provides awk and is Priority: optional but with a higher alternative priority too and so that required mawk is almost never used. (I always install gawk as awk for its better features.) If the package used gawk specific features then the decision would be easy. It would need to depend upon gawk. But it only uses basic awk features and so any of the alternatives is sufficient. Thanks for you knowledge in this. I suspect that it is not necessary: $ apt-cache show mawk |grep Provides\|Priority Priority: required Provides: awk -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpiLD27iIuP3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative and mawk is Priority: required so I would not think so. But gawk provides awk and is Priority: optional but with a higher alternative priority too and so that required mawk is almost never used. (I always install gawk as awk for its better features.) If the package used gawk specific features then the decision would be easy. It would need to depend upon gawk. But it only uses basic awk features and so any of the alternatives is sufficient. Thanks for you knowledge in this. awk is virtually essential: it can't be Essential: yes because that would prevent removing mawk in favor of gawk, but awk is a dependency of another essential package to ensure that you can use basic awk functionality without having to depend on it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:57:37PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative and mawk is Priority: required so I would not think so. But gawk provides awk and is Priority: optional but with a higher alternative priority too and so that required mawk is almost never used. (I always install gawk as awk for its better features.) If the package used gawk specific features then the decision would be easy. It would need to depend upon gawk. But it only uses basic awk features and so any of the alternatives is sufficient. Thanks for you knowledge in this. I suspect that it is not necessary: $ apt-cache show mawk |grep Provides\|Priority Priority: required Provides: awk Right conclusion, wrong rationale. A package being Priority: required does not excuse you from an explicit dependency. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
