Control: tags -1 + confirmed Control: owner -1 ! On 5 August 2014 09:02, Stanley Schade <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Am Montag, 4. August 2014, 19:08:35 schrieb Axel Beckert: >> Hi, >> >> Stanley Schade wrote: >> [...] aptitude does not install the new init package automatically, >> > though it is marked as essential. >> >> ... which is what I would expect. AFAIK there's no obligation to >> install essential packages if they pop up newly -- unless another >> package depends on it.. >> > I could not find such an obligation either.
debian-policy section 3.5 (Dependencies) implies the obligation: Packages are not required to declare any dependencies they have on other packages which are marked Essential (see below), and should not do so unless they depend on a particular version of that package. See also [1]. #555896 is related, though specifically about new essential packages in a non-default release. Regards [1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216768#46> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
