Bug#443086: exim4: Strange and apparently redundant dependencies on debconf

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 443086 wontfix
severity 443086 minor
block 443086 by 395166
thanks

On 2007-09-18 Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.67-8
> Severity: normal

> This looks like it could be rationalized somewhat:
> Package: exim4
> Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, debconf (>= 1.4.69) | cdebconf (>= 0.39),

> I would suggest:
> Depends: debconf (>= 1.4.69) | debconf-2.0,

> Possibly the version for debconf could dropped too as only oldstable
> still has that; the version for cdebconf has become completely irrelevant.

Hello,
"debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0" is added by debhelper expanding
${misc:Depends}, "debconf (>= 1.4.69) | cdebconf (>= 0.39)" is set
manually 

  * debian/control: have exim4 depend on debconf (>= 1.4.69) | cdebconf
    (>= 0.39) explicitly to allow usage of debconf error template type.

Fixing this bug currently could only be done by dropping
${misc:Depends}, which I am unhappy to do, since something else that
is useful could could come out of it in the future.

Which is why I am marking this as wontfix and blocking by the
respective bug in debhelper.
cu andreas
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