Re: lintian and e2fsprogs: doc-directory policy
On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 12:36:25AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote:
> > IMHO this will lead to spurious Depends: being added to packages
> > simply to satisfy 5.6.
>
> That would the tail wagging the dog. Packages which already depend on
> a sibling package don't need an additional copy of the copyright. I
> don't think maintainers would really apply the rule backwards like
> that.
There was at least one library where the libc5 version depends on the libc6
version, and I can't see any reason for it other than the copyright. (I don't
know whether that's been fixed now)
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