Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bug#20717: diff does not use a Pre-Depends field."):
> Ian, my appologies for using the "leader" address, but my archives are
> limited on the new drive and it was all I could find, and I wanted to cc
> you on this one.That's OK. [EMAIL PROTECTED]' will do next time. I've CC'd this to debian-policy. ... > While I am certainly willing to apply the Pre-Depends, I would be equally > willing to remove the "essential" from diff. We have talked about using it > for melding config files, but to my knowledge there is no implimentation. > Is there any other reason that I have missed that would require it to > carry the "essential" flag? Maintainer scripts may use `cmp'. I think we should allow them to. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
