On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:22:51PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> These occurances can be found in the source at:
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/dnssec-trigger/0.13-6/riggerd/reshook.c/#L114
> https://sources.debian.org/src/dnssec-trigger/0.13-6/dnssec-trigger-script.in/#L528
> 
> Both of them does indeed seem to execute the chattr command (with -i or
> +i to set/unset immutable flag). Both of them also doesn't seem to care
> very much about errors from executing the command (and one is even
> called _try_*).

FWIW, I looked into this and can confirm your findings. They still apply
on 0.17+repack-4, dated 24 Aug 2020.

> I would assume this means it's not critical for the command to actually
> exist and a Recommends relationship or lower against e2fsprogs is
> enough.
> 
> Would be great to hear what maintainers think about this.

Maintainers, ping? It seems like the fix may be fairly trivial here --
just adding e2fs to Recommends or Suggests.

Regards,
Faidon

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