Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:09:29AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> Here's a thought: the system should actually *pre*-depend on packages
> that are required by the packaging system itself. But essential
> packages are treated (at least by dpkg) as universal dependencies, not
> universal pre-dependencies.
What happens if a new version of dpkg has two versioned predeps that declare
each other as predeps? (Yes, this does seem rather a contrived situation,
but it is an extreme -- are there less extreme situations that are more
plausible? How does dpkg handle such things now? :)
Just curious more than anything else...
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