Stephen Kitt: > Package: debhelper > Version: 9.20160403 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > With the introduction of the dependency from debhelper to > dh-autoreconf, non-development systems with debhelper installed (in my > case, because of equivs) suddenly end up pulling in the autotools > suite and gcc. That’s “only” ~230MB but it seems unfortunate... It’s > not directly relevant since the correct solution is to stop installing > equivs, but many companies forbid installing gcc on servers. (And no, > I’m not running testing on servers.) > > Is there any way of reducing the dependency’s impact? Or is it not > worth it? > > Regards, > > Stephen > > > [...]
Hi, I am open to suggestions for how to solve it, but at first glance I do not see one (without neutering compat/10's auto-enabling of dh_autoreconf). Thanks, ~Niels
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