retitle 532746 add recommends on lsb-release tag 532746 +confirmed thanks On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:16:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > thanks for your verbose changelog entry (0.2), and due to it, I'm > wondering whether you aren't lacking a dependency (or a recommendation) > on lsb-release (probably versioned). AFAICT you only depend on > python-apt, which in turn depend on lsb-releae, with no version info. So > you probably won't pull in the “recent” lsb-release (>= 3.2-21 AFAICT) > package you could take advantage of, I think.
When looking for a distributor's ID, the code tries the lsb_release module, the lsb_release command, the /etc/lsb-release file in order until one is found, falling back to just "Debian". Therefore the package is not strictly necessary for operation. OTOH lsb-release is not a large package (especially compared to such dependency as python) so the main downside of depending on its given version would be the additional (small) obstacle/confusion with backporting apt-forktracer to older/other distros. So I think a versioned "Recommends:" should be fine. I'll add it on next upload. -- Marcin Owsiany <[email protected]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
