On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Phil Endecott wrote: > There is popcon, which I presume has enough detail. (It currently > reports a total of 5 arm64 machines!). I think you need some > indirection to work out what Debian release is in use, e.g. to > look at the libc version or something.
Version numbers other than the popcon version itself are not reported to the server. > (Hmm, I've just looked this up; apparently it now tries to submit > over HTTP and only falls back to email if that fails. And you can > make it not fall back to email in its configuration file. Which is > great, except that it still depends on an MTA (and tries to install > exim by default). So I've just done Maybe you are talking about Recommends? Those are optional. Recommends: gnupg, cron | cron-daemon, exim4 | mail-transport-agent -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

