[maemo-developers] dpkg: serious warning: files list .......

[From: Eero Tamminen]

ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "ext Guillem Jover" <guillem.jover at nokia.com> writes:
> 
>> * Why are you using a Pre-Depends?
> 
> He is using this pre-depends:
> 
>     Pre-Depends: maemo-select-menu-location
> 
> This one ultimately comes from the "How to make a package for the
> Application Manager" document here:
> 
>     http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package_bora.html#utilities
> 
> The maemo-select-menu-location utility is supposed to be used from
> maintainer scripts, and I thought that you should pre-depend on
> packages providing these utilities in this case.  Not true?

Hm. Debian policy states following:
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Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and 
configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a 
Pre-Depends entry for the package.

You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this has 
been discussed on the debian-devel mailing list and a consensus about 
doing that has been reached.
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I guess in our case things like this should be discussed on 
maemo-developers. ;-)


	- Eero