On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:57:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > As it happens I'm a member of the d-i team (actually I was testing d-i > when I noticed this problem).
Oh good :-) > In line with Debian policy, d-i installs _every_ package available for an > architecture that a) is in base OR b) has priority 'standard' or higher. > > As lib64stdc++6 is both 'base' and 'important', it gets installed and > pulls in amd64-libs and lib64gcc1 because of it's dependencies. > lib64gcc1 would get installed in it's own right as it is priority > 'required'. > > I have no idea how the sections and priorities for these packages have > been decided, but to me they seem very high. Especially as I can see no > other packages in base or with high priorities that depend on these libs. > > Moving lib64stdc++6 to libs and giving both lib64stdc++6 and lib64gcc1 > priority 'optional' should fix this. You'll have to talk to Matthias about that. I'm trying to upload the amd64-libs fix. I'm having a fistfight with the upload queue, which insists that its checksum is wrong. -- Daniel Jacobowitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
