Guillem Jover <guil...@hadrons.org> writes: > On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 20:27:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> writes: >>> […] It can be made explicit in section 3.8 quite easily:
>>> Since dpkg will not prevent upgrading of other packages while an >>> ``essential`` package is in an unconfigured state, all ``essential`` >>> packages must supply all of their core functionality even when >>> -unconfigured. If the package cannot satisfy this requirement it must not >>> +unconfigured after being configured at least once. >>> +If the package cannot satisfy this requirement it must not >>> be tagged as essential, and any packages depending on this package must >>> instead have explicit dependency fields as appropriate. > Seconded. Thanks, this has been applied for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
