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Bug#983359: ntfs-3g has a wrong Pre-Depends

From	László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#983359: ntfs-3g has a wrong Pre-Depends
Date	2021-02-23 18:50 +0100
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Hi Steve,

Your diligence is missing from Debian, but good to see that you are
still around.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:36 PM Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek@canonical.com> wrote:
> The ntfs-3g package has a Pre-Depends on fuse.  This is improper;
> Pre-Depends should only be used when one package is required to be
> configured before another package is unpacked.  Since ntfs-3g has no preinst
> script, this is not the case for ntfs-3g and the Pre-Depends should be moved
> to Depends.
 You are right and I don't know why it was put there in the first
place in November, 2006. Its postinst uses dpkg-statoverride on
/bin/fusermount but for that time dpkg guarantees all dependencies to
be in state unpacked at least.
Going to make the mentioned change after some testing.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS

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Bug#983359: ntfs-3g has a wrong Pre-Depends Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> - 2021-02-22 22:40 +0100
  Bug#983359: ntfs-3g has a wrong Pre-Depends László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> - 2021-02-23 18:50 +0100

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