Hi Daniel, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 20 December 2012 22:19, Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote: > > So since apt is not essential, but aptitude needs some binaries out of > > that package to perform very common actions, aptitude must have a > > dependency on apt > > Such a dependency belongs to libapt-pkg, or to move the basic > method drivers to that package.
Granted, that'd be the better solution. Reassign to src:apt? > It is libapt-pkg that uses them, aptitude only requests to acquire > some file and knows nothing about any of these drivers or their > usage. That's why I hoped for a comment by you. :-) > This otherwise requires adding such a dependency to all libapt-pkg > consumers. Indeed. > I recall this may have been discussed this year, though do not > recall the outcome. Not on aptitude's list, I guess. Otherwise I'd remember it very likely. On the deity list? I looked through the past two years for libapt-pkg, methods and dependencies in the threads' subjects, but haven't found any promising subject. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org