Mono or related development packages (e.g. Monodevelop) do not depend on binfmt-support anymore

[Jo Vermeulen]

I installed mono-2.0-devel and other packages to be able to compile .NET applications, but those didn't pull in binfmt-support, which allows .NET applications to be started from the shell directly. Without binfmt-support, you need to use "mono myapp.exe" instead of "./myapp.exe".

Even after installing Monodevelop, binfmt-support was not pulled in. Any ideas why this changed? As far as I know, in previous releases this package got automatically installed as well.

Thanks!

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Which package manager are you using? binfmt-support is a Recommends:, not a Depends:. This isn't a problem most of the time since most package managers in Ubuntu (and all in Debian that I know of) install Recommends by default

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

The dependency comes from mono-common, btw

And the dependency was changed in 1.2.3.1-5 (April 2007) to fix Debian bug 418765

[Jo Vermeulen (jozilla)]

Ah I see. Well I use Synaptic and aptitude to install packages. Maybe aptitude did not pull in the recommended packages.

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Well Aptitude definitely already installs recommends by default, Synaptic does NOT in Hardy but does in Intrepid

Since this isn't really a bug - and the non-bug doesn't happen anymore in Intrepid, I'm closing the bug as fixed.