Re: need input: essential packages and pre-depends

1998-03-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:48 +0100 1998-03-24, Santiago Vila wrote: procps was essential in Debian 1.3.1, but it is not essential in hamm. procps contains the important /bin/ps binary (which is certainly used in maintainer scripts, either directly or indirectly through the init.d scripts). Which packages have

Re: need input: essential packages and pre-depends

1998-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, if /bin/ps is not essential to the system, why it is in /bin? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNRgQfiqK7IlOjMLFAQFMlQP/eSQNds3w/1JjznI/YWEq8vRJgBcljPtX UVE+L2oNiWRrLRi8eDQ6mJ+7naqVBr7sMpeNvRXujEik9WgVoCfHc/yopUjJ6bVi

Re: need input: essential packages and pre-depends

1998-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Fine. Summary: Either 1) procps is(should be) essential. or 2) procps is not(should not be) essential. If 1), I would propose to add Pre-Depends fields for libc6. If 2), then someone should report a bug against netbase for using ps in the postinst without