Santiago Vila wrote: > From the list, I can see just one exception: procps > > procps was essential in Debian 1.3.1, but it is not essential in hamm. > procps contains the important /bin/ps binary (which is certainly used in > maintainer scripts, either directly or indirectly through the init.d > scripts). Important but not essential. A quick grep on /etc/init.d/* shows no use of ps for the packages I use.
> Is there a reason why this package lost his essential flag? This was discussed in debian-devel about 3 months ago, the consensus was it is not essential. Neither was psmisc. > If nobody objects, I will report this as a bug, and will ask the > maintainer to use a Pre-Depends field for libc6 (which is the only I object, unless there is a clear decision on this mail list that it should be essential. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8D D8 63 6E BF C3 C7 47 41 B1 A2 1F 46 EC 90 |@work: [EMAIL PROTECTED], @play: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |@home: [EMAIL PROTECTED], @debian:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |@web: http://www.triode.net.au/~csmall @spam:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
