On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:49:09PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
Several years ago it was agreed that awk would be essential (which
is currently implemented by a Depends: awk in base-files).
Err, shouldn't base-files Pre-Depends: awk? (In effect, base-files is the
Essential: yes package that
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:09:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
(The other special cases I am aware of are the daemon starting mess,
which will be fixed by invoke-rc.d, some fairly unavoidable dpkg
bootstrapping, some timezone thing, and an exim mess since it still
doesn't use debconf.)
The aim
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:59:25PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
What I mean is that the current policy wording about essential
packages is sub-optimal. The important thing is not that essential
packages work even if they are unconfigured, the important thing is
that once they are configured (by
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit:
I'd rather document awk to be an exception to the clause
because unilaterally loosening this clause will require us
to further patch the debootstrap phase.
What do you mean? You speak as if there were lots of
Anthony Towns wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
Several years ago it was agreed that awk would be essential (which
is currently implemented by a Depends: awk in base-files).
Err, shouldn't base-files Pre-Depends: awk? (In effect, base-files is the
Essential: yes package that provides the awk
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:53:58PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
I was going to propose a patch against the current policy document,
but there is a little problem:
Since dpkg will not prevent upgrading of other packages while an
essential package is in an unconfigured state, all
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:18:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
Well, yes, more or less. In the example about gawk replacing mawk
you'll see that at all times there is a working awk. I don't see
a fundamental reason why this should not work for dash and bash.
It works for mawk/gawk because the
Hello.
Several years ago it was agreed that awk would be essential (which
is currently implemented by a Depends: awk in base-files).
I think this should be reflected in policy in some way, because a lot
of people still use Depends: awk in their control fields.
Or even worse Depends: mawk | awk
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit:
This paragraph was added to fix Bug#50832 but if we follow it strictly
then all the awk packages are in violation, since they use the
alternative mechanism to update the awk symlink in /usr/awk and
therefore do not provide their core
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit:
This paragraph was added to fix Bug#50832 but if we follow it strictly
then all the awk packages are in violation, since they use the
alternative mechanism to update the awk symlink in /usr/awk
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit:
This paragraph was added to fix Bug#50832 but if we follow it strictly
then all the awk packages are in violation, since they use the
alternative mechanism to update the awk symlink in /usr/awk and
therefore do
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit:
I'd rather document awk to be an exception to the clause
because unilaterally loosening this clause will require us
to further patch the debootstrap phase.
What do you mean? You speak as if there were lots of essential
packages using
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