On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:24:37AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Personally I would increase the strength of the wording to be more like: > An essential package is one that can never stop working. This means any > dpkg abort must leave the package properly functional. > > IMHO just being able to live in the unpacked state is not good enough.
This is more what I was looking for. Making it more important that the real issue be met without giving some weak fallback (removing the essential status if it fails the real meaning of the clause). This should be a criteria for essential packages, not just new ones, but also make sure that changes in current ones do not conflict with this. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
