Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #949572 I was thinking maybe it is being installed because of the Priority: important or Priority: essential, but no I checked python{,2}{,-minimal} and they are either Priority: standard and Priority: optional.
So I a not exactly sure what decides to install it. I checked the debootstrap sources and a profile for 'sid', I do not see the python mentioned there explicitly. I even done a test with `debootstrap sid ....` and it doesn't install Python at all. There is no python in base or required packages. So the fact that debian-installer is installing Python2 must be coming from somewhere else. Python3 makes sense as it is dependency of reportbug, popcon and apt-listchanges for example. Cheers, Witold