Package: debianutils Version: 4.8.1.1 Severity: normal Tags: buster sid Dear Maintainer,
As far as I understand it sensible-utils used to be part of debianutils and was later split out into a separate package. To have a supported upgrade path debianutils (Essential: yes) got a dependency on sensible-utils. This effectively made sensible-utils pseudo-essential and not possible to deinstall. Given several debian releases has passed since I think it might be time to consider dropping this dependency to make sensible-utils deinstallable in minimal chroots. (Given policy 4.0.1.0 now no longer forbids depending on lower priority I'm also considering asking for sensible-utils priority to be downgraded to 'important' from current 'required'. That would make it be part of all 'normal' debootstrap/installs, but not part of '--variant=minbase' minimal debootstraps.) Do you see any remaining issues preventing the dependency to be dropped? (Or the priority to be downgraded.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (5000, 'stable'), (1000, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 debianutils recommends no packages. debianutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
