Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes: > cdebconf has gotten to be a quite usable replacement for debconf. > However, in trying to remove debconf from my system, I found there > were several packages with wrong dependencies, like this:
> Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, debconf > That never makes sense, so I think lintian should detect it. Yes... in fact, it would be good to diagnose the more general problem, where one dependency fully satisfies another dependency. I think we already have infrastructure to do that but only apply it across different dependency types (checking whether Recommends is already satisfied by Depends, for example). But, on this topic, when I looked at removing debconf from my system, the thing that seemed to be missing was debconf-set-selections. Does cdebconf provide that utility in some way that I'm not noticing? (I'm dubious that any package in Debian has any business using debconf-set-selections directly, but we have some internal packages at Stanford that use it to mess with the defaults of other packages.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
