Package: util-linux Version: 2.39.3-6 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org
libuuid1/libuuid1t64 currrently Recommends uuid-runtime. As I understand it, uuid-runtime is primarily used when generating a huge number of UUIDs very rapidly on a system, and wanting to ensure that they can efficiently be generated uniquely. Recommends is supposed to be used for cases of "packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations." I think it's safe to say that it isn't just "unusual installations" that can do without uuid-runtime; *needing* uuid-runtime is the uncommon case. And in addition, today we do not install uuid-runtime when bootstrapping a system (because some part of bootstrapping doesn't look at Recommends), so many systems end up with libuuid1 without uuid-runtime, without issue. I would propose that the relationship on uuid-runtime become a "Suggests": "This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable." -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: arm64 Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libblkid1 2.39.3-6 ii libc6 2.37-15 ii libcap-ng0 0.8.4-2 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.36-4 ii libmount1 2.39.3-6 ii libpam0g 1.5.2-9.1+b1 ii libselinux1 3.5-2 ii libsmartcols1 2.39.3-6 ii libsystemd0 255.3-2 ii libtinfo6 6.4+20240113-1 ii libudev1 255.3-2 ii libuuid1 2.39.3-6 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg-3+b1 Versions of packages util-linux recommends: ii sensible-utils 0.0.22 Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii dosfstools 4.2-1 pn kbd <none> pn util-linux-extra <none> pn util-linux-locales <none> -- no debconf information
