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and subject line Re: Bug#872220: e2fsprogs: fdisk recommends/suggests needed
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regarding e2fsprogs: fdisk recommends/suggests needed
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Source: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.43.3-1
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: fdisk-recommends-suggests
Hello,
As recently announced on debian-devel-announce[1] packages who need
any of sfdisk, cfdisk or fdisk will need to add a dependency on the
new fdisk package.
Your package e2fsprogs showed up on codesearch.debian.net and a very
quick analysis suggested you might not want to use a strict depends
but rather a recommends or suggests (and/or build-dependency if you
use it at build-time, eg. tests).
Please use the backwards-compatible way of specifying the
relationship as suggested in the debian-devel-announce mail:
fdisk | util-linux (<< 2.29.2-3~)
(and if only for tests you might want to add the build profile
<!nocheck>)
Please reassign this bug report to the binary package shipping the
affected part of your source.
If your more detailed analysis shows this relationship should not be
needed at all please just close this bug report stating the results
of your analysis (and if so sorry for bothering you).
Regards, Andreas Henriksson
[1]:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00005.html
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:15:05AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Source: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.43.3-1
> Severity: important
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: fdisk-recommends-suggests
>
> As recently announced on debian-devel-announce[1] packages who need
> any of sfdisk, cfdisk or fdisk will need to add a dependency on the
> new fdisk package.
>
> Your package e2fsprogs showed up on codesearch.debian.net and a very
> quick analysis suggested you might not want to use a strict depends
> but rather a recommends or suggests (and/or build-dependency if you
> use it at build-time, eg. tests).
E2fsprogs doesn't use fdisk, so this isn't an issue for us. That
being said, this was an opportunity for me to change our dependencies,
since technically speaking what we really depend on is libblkid1 and
libuuid1, and not util-linux. I'll fix that for the next release, but
as it relates to needing to add a recommends for fdisk | sfdisk |
cfdisk, it's not necessary so I'm going to close out this bug.
Cheers,
- Ted
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