Public bug reported:
In ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial", when installing fail2ban using "apt
install fail2ban", apt installs python2 as a "recommended" dependency,
while it is actually not needed at all by fail2ban. This should be
changed.
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
# apt install fail2ban
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python
python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Suggested packages:
mailx monit python-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fail2ban libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python
python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,142 kB of archives.
After this operation, 17.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
** Affects: fail2ban (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Installing fail2ban pulls python2
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