On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:20:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I'd say actually that any package using /var/mail should depend on the > > > approprate base-files and we could do this for potato even. > > > > You would have to use Pre-Depends, because as soon as you > > unpack a mail reader using /var/mail, /var/mail would be used, even > > if base-files has not created the symlink yet. > > > > I dislike the idea of packages pre-depending on a specific version of > > base-files, this imposes a certain order in the upgrade. > > > > I think there is no hurry and we should stick to /var/spool/mail for > > potato. > > Even if we do this we must still declare the dependency I would imagine.
Yes, and it would still have to be a Pre-Dependency, but a package in potato+1 which Pre-Depends on the base-files in potato is not a great deal, considering that almost everybody will upgrade from slink to potato first. -- "2a3e5259f688f835d529b50326a3d1ad" (a truly random sig)
