On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:38:55PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > libncurses5 is not essential, so it seems like a simple case of missing > > depends. Making the assumption that transitive dependency resolution will > > bring in packages your package needs via another package depends is a bug.
> Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the Debian Policy for Priority: Required > packages. Yes, you are. > Why does that category even exist if we also have the Essential tag? It is what it says on the tin - you should not remove required packages from your system. That doesn't mean that you're allowed to not depend on the libraries that your package needs in order to use, because the set of "required" libraries *changes* over time. The only packages you don't have to depend on if you need them are the Essential: yes packages - and shared libraries are not allowed to be Essential: yes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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