On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 02:18:48PM +0100, peter green wrote: >... > Adrian filed a rc bug in November 2019 which received no maintainer response, > however the package was not autoremoved from testing due to aufs and > aufs-tools being considered a "key packages" due to high popcon. This popcon > actually seems to be growing in both absolute and percentage terms. I presume > the high popcon is due to some deriviative (hence debian-derivatives and > debian-live in cc) using aufs in their live image builds (as far as I can > tell debian's own live images seem to use overlayfs instead nowadays). >...
It doesn't have to be a derivative, one webhoster who installs popcon by default is enough. phpmyadmin in stretch was a similar case, it went up to 10% popcon despite nothing in Debian installing it by default and no reverse dependencies (only a Suggests from a package with single-digit popcon). When the release team went through RC bugs key packages closer to the freeze phpmyadmin was removed from testing (and is not in buster). cu Adrian
