Accepted udev 093-0ubuntu5 (source)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 25 14:51:30 BST 2006


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:43:15PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman 
> 
> | On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:05:33PM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> | >    * Add dependency on libuuid1, so we can call uuidgen during conversion
> | >      to add a UUID to an existing swap partition that was generated without
> | >      one.
> | 
> | uuidgen seems to be in e2fsprogs, not libuuid1, and neither libuuid1 nor
> | udev depends on e2fsprogs.
> 
> : tfheen at thosu ~ > apt-cache show e2fsprogs | grep ^Essential
> Essential: yes
> 
> So there's no need for a dependency there.  uuidgen used to be in
> libuuid1, but has now moved to e2fsprogs which is probably why Scott
> added the wrong (and unneeded) dependency there.

Technically it should have a versioned dependency, but I think uuidgen may
have been there for ages...

-- 
 - mdz



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