Package: dgit Version: 6.6 Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: needed-by-DSA-Team
Dear Maintainer, Please, consider demoting `git-buildpackage` to a recommends, since `dgit` does not "seem" to depend on it. For some background, I would like to enable Debian porterbox users to be able to run `dgit push`, however some of my colleagues on the Debian sysadmin team, consider installing `dgit` a concern, since they prefer users to push sources into porterboxes rather than pull them (being `apt source` the only exception). At the moment `dgit` is installed in porterboxes, however it drags in `git-buildpackage` which is very much a concern to have it installed there. Could you please consider demoting such dependency to a recommends? Or alternatively provide a separated binary package providing `dgit push` functionality? (Since porterboxes run on stable and you agree with the report, consider making available such feature via stable-backports) For reference, APT install log on stretch porterbox: Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install dgit Install: libjson-perl:amd64 (2.90-1, automatic), dgit:amd64 (3.11~deb9u1), git-buildpackage:amd64 (0.8.12.2, automatic), libtext-glob-perl:amd64 (0.10-1, automatic), python-dateutil:amd64 (2.5.3-2, automatic) Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ca_AD:ca (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dgit depends on: ii apt 1.6.3 ii ca-certificates 20180409 ii coreutils 8.28-1 ii curl 7.60.0-2 ii devscripts 2.18.3 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii dput 1.0.2 ii git [git-core] 1:2.18.0-1 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.9 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libjson-perl 2.97001-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5+b6 ii libwww-perl 6.35-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-6 Versions of packages dgit recommends: ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.7p1-3 Versions of packages dgit suggests: ii cowbuilder 0.87+b1 ii pbuilder 0.229.3 -- no debconf information
