reassign 496650 debianutils thanks On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Package: base-files > Version: 4.0.5 4 > Severity: important > > Hi Santiago, > > In version 4.0.5 you write: > > * Changed awk from Depends to Pre-Depends. Closes: #314571, #469552. > > This is required to make the awk virtual package to be truly essential, > > The same situation happened in etch with mktemp. I think it would make sense > to: > - add such a pre-dependency to base-files for lenny aswell, so people that > used sarge, then etch and now upgrade to lenny and still miss mktemp, will > actually pull it in so we know this inconsistency is out of the way for the > future, and: > - perhaps to the same for a stable update for base files > ? > > It's quite late indeed, but isn't it better to still try to fix what we can > here? No. Please see #494073. debianutils in etch is essential and it already had a Pre-Depends: mktemp. If the debianutils maintainer wants to keep the Pre-Depends in lenny, it's up to him, but upgrades which skip releases are not officially supported. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
