[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#890711: Bug#890711: Bug#890711: zsh-common: Missing Depends on zsh

[Axel Beckert]

Control: close -1

Hi Dima,

Dima Kogan wrote:
> > Additionally, what did pull in zsh-common? zsh 4.3.17-1 is not yet
> > split up and has no dependency on zsh-common, not even an unversioned
> > one. (Which probably means that zsh-common rather would need a
> > "Conflicts: zsh (<< 5)", but fixing this three releases later seems
> > ridiculous.)
> 
> Just looked at the logs. aptitude tried to upgrade zsh to 5.4.2-3, which
> pulled in zsh-common. During the upgrade something didn't go right, and
> I guess zsh ended up at the old version, but zsh-common did get
> installed.

At least that explains it well. Thanks for checking.

> OK. Before you mentioned it I didn't realize that this install was as
> old as it apparently is,

Ok. :-)

> so maybe leaving it is ok. Upgrades such as this maybe aren't
> common, but people do do them,

Well, at least I prefer to do several upgrades in a row to avoid such
problems.

> and this harder dependency would save them time. I filed this bug in
> case this missing dep was an oversight, but you clearly thought
> about it, and if you think the downsides of adding such a dependency
> outweigh the benefits,

Definitely from my point of view. IMHO the versioned dependency from
zsh to zsh-common should already suffice all these cases.

> feel free to close this bug.

Ok, thanks. Doing so.

		Regards, Axel
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