2012/6/25 Marguerite Su <i@marguerite.su>:
Just do not touch update-alternatives package, even if it's quite inconvenient, this needs to be packages in separate spec to avoid huge build loops in Factory. [...] I think most of our users also feel confused they have to install deb
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@suse.cz> wrote: package instead of dpkg/debhelper, because no one tends to read our packaging wiki first if he already tried packaging once on Debian/Ubuntu.
Although that is somewhat mitigated by the fact that deb provides dpkg and debhelper. So a "zypper install dpkg" should already do the right thing.
Why not bind update-alternative and dpkg together, instead of deb? When I worked on that deb package, I saw those are actually built together.
See the note of Michal (cited at the top of this mail): update-alternatives is packaged separately so that it can be built early in a bootstrap cycle. dpkg has quite huge lists of BuildRequires, some of which might require update-alternatives. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org