On 2018-03-19 22:34 +0100, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> Package: whiptail
> Version: 0.52.20-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Could you consider lowering the priority of whiptail from important to
> standard?
This has been done in the latest upload, but
a) Priorities are set by the FTP masters, so the change has no effect.
b) It does not look quite correct to me.
> Packages using whiptail should depend on it and the change would help
> keeping minimal systems clean.
The problem is that debconf uses whiptail as its default frontend, but
does _not_ depend on it, so that it does not need to be installed in
build chroots which normally use the "noninteractive" debconf frontend.
For a usable debconf, you really need whiptail or dialog (or one of the
graphical frontends, but those have many additional dependencies and
require X). See debconf(7).
Cheers,
Sven
