Your message dated Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:21:51 +0100 with message-id <20180222172151.ga13...@alf.mars> and subject line Re: Bug#887197: ansible should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly has caused the Debian Bug report #887197, regarding ansible should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ansible Version: 2.4.2.0+dfsg-1 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: nonessentiale2fsprogs Dear maintainer, We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit from such an option. For getting there all packages that use e2fsprogs must be identified and gain a dependency on it as e2fsprogs currently is essential. ansible was identified as potentially needing such a dependency, because it mentions tool names from e2fsprogs in the following files: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/module_utils/basic.py contains chattr and lsattr. According to file it is a Python script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/aix.py contains lsattr. According to file it is a C++ source, ASCII text /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/module_utils/facts/network/aix.py contains lsattr. According to file it is a C++ source, ASCII text /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/files/stat.py contains lsattr. According to file it is a Python script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/system/filesystem.py contains mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, resize2fs and tune2fs. According to file it is a Python script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments/files.py contains chattr and lsattr. According to file it is a C++ source, ASCII text Please investigate whether these cases are actually uses of a tool from e2fsprogs. Care has been taken to shrink the number of candidates as much as possible, but a few false positives will remain. After doing so, do one of the following: * Add e2fsprogs to Depends. * Add e2fsprogs to Recommends. * Close this bug explaining why e2fsprogs is not used by this package. Once e2fsprogs drops the "Essential: yes" flag, this bug will be upgraded to RC severity. Please note that lintian will warn about such a dependency before lintian 2.5.56. Thanks for your help Helmut
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Lee wrote: > I'll close this bug as "wontfix" with the following rationale: > > ansible is used to administer remote machines, similar to chef or puppet. This > works by installing ansible on your local machine ("controller") and setting > up a workspace to remotely administer other machines ("nodes") you can access > via SSH. This works (a bit simplified) by creating a tarball of all the python > code that needs to run on the remote machine, scp'ing it over, and then > executing it on the remote side. > > You'll notice that the controller where ansible is installed won't be running > any of the above code. Only the remote node will be running this, however the > ansible package won't be installed there. For this reason a dependency to > e2fsprogs won't be needed. Thank you for looking into this. I concur with the analysis. Since the bug wasn't closed yet, I'll do now. Helmut
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