On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:06:17PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote: >> From: Jakub Libosvar <[email protected]> >> >> ovs-ctl script uses hostname. This patch adds dependency for debian >> systems. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jakub Libosvar <[email protected]> > > Thanks a lot for the patch. It's very kind to look out for the Debian > packaging. > > I was pretty surprised to find out that there's a separate package just > for the hostname command. Never noticed that before. However, the > hostname package is marked "essential" and Debian policy says: > > Packages are not required to declare any dependencies they have on > other packages which are marked `Essential' (see below), and should > not do so unless they depend on a particular version of that > package.[1] > > so probably we should not apply this change. > > Thanks, > > Ben.
Thanks, Ben! This is exactly why even though it looked incredibly trivial, I wanted someone with Debian packaging knowledge to review it. :-) -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
