Bug#684208: libconfig-model-perl: do not remove versioned depends on essential packages

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:54:13PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Le Tuesday 7 August 2012 22:03:09, Alessandro Ghedini a écrit :
> > when running "cme fix dpkg-control", the versioned (Pre-|Build-)Depends on
> > essential packages (e.g. dpkg) gets replaced by non-versioned depends which
> > in turn causes the
> > depends-on-build-essential-package-without-using-version lintian error
> > (see e.g. [0]). IMO Config::Model shouldn't modify dependencies on
> > essential packages.
> 
> Another possibility is to go forward with the cleanup logic: completely remove 
> a dependency on an essential package if the required version is found on all 
> supported version.
> 
> In the case you mention (Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6) ), rmadison mentions 
> that squeeze already provides version 1.15.8.12.
> 
> So, I think the pre-dependency is no longer required and should be removed 
> entirely.
> 
> Thoughts ?

AFAICT that would work too for Debian, but it might "break" Ubuntu (see slightly
related #659795). I'm not sure if that problem works the other way around too
though (the Pre-Depends was there and it got removed, instead of the Pre-Depends
not being there from the start as in the bug above).

Cheers

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