Hi, I still think that is absolutely the wrong thing to do, and makes debootstrap more fragile for no good reason. If you think a particular package shouldn't be priority:required then file a bug against ftp.debian.org to change it.
Cheers, Julien On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 20:13:45 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 06:01:13 +0200 Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2017-06-24 20:23:25) > > > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> (2016-09-12): > > > > This is a transient situation because some Essential packages' > > > > dependencies changed. I'd consider this a bug in the archive, not in > > > > debootstrap. > > > Any reasons to keep this bug report open then? Seen no objections, so I'm > > > tempted to close it. > > > > But... the buildd variant still explicitly (and not only implicitly through > > dependencies of essential:yes packages) installs Priority:required packages, > > no? > > as we are at the beginning of the trixie development cycle, I have opened a > merge request against debootstrap which avoids installing priority:required > packages with the buildd variant: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/merge_requests/106#note_430035 > > I've put Ansgar and Julien in CC as they were opposed to this change. > > I'm putting Luca and Guillem in CC who wrote in favour of this change also in > policy bug #1029831. > > Santiago is in CC as the driver of the mass bug filing for source packages > that > fail to build in a chroot environment with just Essential:yes and > build-essential installed. > > According to the last MBF from December 2022 and January 2023, there are 13 > source packages that would FTBFS after this change because they are missing an > explicit build dependency on tzdata or mount. > > As part of the thread starting at > 9b40f6f2-4942-acfc-2f9c-4668f05d9...@debian.org a number of arguments were > made > for and against this change. I still believe that the arguments for this > change > weigh stronger than those against it and thus I filed that merge request > above. > > Luca, as the debootstrap maintainer, what are your thoughts? > > Thank you! > > cheers, josch
