Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important Tags: sarge d-i There are several libraries that are currently priority standard although they have been obsoleted by newer versions.
Having these priority standard means that they will be installed on any system newly installed using Debian Installer, but will probably never be used. I propose that the priority for these packages be changed to optional _before_ the Sarge release. AFAICT, for i386 this is true for the following libraries: - libdb2, libdb4.0 (libdb3 and 4.2 are heavily used; libdb4.1 is only used by vacation) - libgnutils7, libgnutils10 - libcrypt7, libcrypt1 - libopencdk4 The same is true for ipchains, which has been obsoleted by iptables for both the current 2.4 and the 2.6 kernels. Also, it could be argued that vacation should be made optional as bsdmainutils only suggests it. In that case libdb4.1 could also be changed to optional. I guess the same could be true for other architectures, but I have not investigated those. (See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272406.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
