Specifying multiple binary package dependencies

[Sam Varshavchik]

Colin Law writes:

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 12:33, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> >
> > My question was a technical, rather than a policy one: if an installed
> > package A "Depends" on B, apparently you can end up with dpkg removing B  
> and
> > not doing anything about A. That just does not compute for me. My question
> > was that if merely specifying that A "Depends" on B is insufficient, then
> > what is?
> >
> > If the answer here is "well, the policy says don't do it", then that's just
> > my indirect answer: no, this cannot be enforced by deb packages'
> > dependencies.
>
> This thread is well beyond my knowledge base, but have you tried
> installing and removing via apt rather than dpkg

No, not yet. It's on my todo list; but first I wanted to make sure I  
understood fully how inter-package dependencies were supposed to work.

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