* Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de [100314 20:54]:
Then you clearly don't understand the purpose of Essential.
I understand the theory, I've just never seen the practical purpose of
the current mechanism. Yes, it shortens Depends: lines but if the
dependencies are not listed and the
On 14/03/2010 19:25, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects
have been identified so far. Sometimes I
On Feb 07, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote:
The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself
is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS.
Since Luk is on vacation, does anybody else have any ideas about how to
do
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:10:03 +0100
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
On Feb 07, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote:
The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself
is just uploading e2fsprogs
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects
have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually
needs Essential any
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0700
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects
have
On 2010-03-14 20:34 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0700
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
removes the tag from any and
On Feb 07, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote:
The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency.
So, how can this be done?
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ciao,
Marco
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Marco d'Itri wrote:
Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag
Marco d'Itri wrote:
Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
e2fsprogs?
Also, what new priority should it get?
Debian Installer
On Sunday 07 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
e2fsprogs?
Just see it's already been lowered to recommends (I had an older version of
initscripts installed).
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