[Pkg-shadow-devel] Understanding the dependencies

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois at centraliens.net):
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to understand the dependencies in debian/control.

Yet another nice initiative by shadow Real maintainer..:-)

>  * Some do not seems to be needed (Build-Depends: texinfo, libpam-runtime).
>    (At least nowadays)

So, let's drop them.


>  * Somes seems really old and no more relevant (Conflict with packages which
>    disapeared before potato or even bo).
>    (This is not a real issue, and we can live with them. BTW, I don't know
>    if we can remove them)

We can. FWIW, upgrades from a n-2 version are never guaranteed to be
supported. In short, we must support upgrades from sarge but not
upgrades from woody and earlier releases.


> 
> It would be nice if we could maintain a list of rationals for all the
> dependencies.


Oh, yes. So you did....so you now need to commit this..:-)