-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 3. ncurses-bin contains "clear" and "reset", among others. If this > > package is essential, then those commands are allowed to be used in > > maintainer scripts. > > I think I disagree with `if this package ... scripts'. It may not be > explicitly stated anywhere, but I think it's reasonable for a package > to contain both really-essential bits and others. I agree. I talked about clear and reset because I thought they were the ones it made the package to be essential. The complete list is: captoinfo, clear, infocmp, reset, tic, toe, tput, tset > I think that no package should (or indeed does) use `clear' or `reset' > in its preinst or without using a dependency. Do you mean ncurses-bin should not be essential? If it is not essential, the user will be able to remove it. Is really "useful" the freedom of being able to remove ncurses-bin without using - --force-remove-essential? I will postpone any bug[*] on ncurses-bin until we all agree on this. [*] Either add Pre-Depends or drop the essential flag. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNRab7iqK7IlOjMLFAQGH1AP/ZOS5sk10JhDLnVE+sboSyXmNaO/0mpN/ v2CIBDy9SQXDoholNsZ5wy44iLK7Qr/AAuzAMvIlvX/Q/vnRDsqTD3v2XcovvBCr vj+cnYIHRXZlUzJYhfb50lxbPzmoY13CBTNzwRGnoaGuycive3pUO2zWEzogXCnr JWpVKTuA4kg= =WkTm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]