Accepted germinate 0.21ubuntu1 (source)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 7 21:04:48 BST 2006


On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:30:07PM -0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Accepted:
>  OK: germinate_0.21ubuntu1.dsc
>      -> Component: main Section: utils
>  OK: germinate_0.21ubuntu1.tar.gz
> 
> Format: 1.7
> Date: Thu,  7 Sep 2006 16:44:36 +0200
> Source: germinate
> Binary: germinate
> Architecture: source
> Version: 0.21ubuntu1
> Distribution: edgy
> Urgency: low
> Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
> Changed-By: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com>
> Description: 
>  germinate  - Expand dependencies in a list of seed packages
> Changes: 
>  germinate (0.21ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
>  .
>    * added support for recommends in seeds via enclosing the
>      packagename in '('..')'. E.g.
>      * (pkgname)     # this will produce a recommends

My understanding was that we would make all of the metapackage dependencies
into Recommends, since they are intended to provide defaults which the user
may deviate from in the future.

Is this still the plan, and the above a means to deploy it incrementally?

-- 
 - mdz



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