Hello,
Any news on this? It would be good to avoid installing cpp by default on
all base Debian systems.
Samuel
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 31 janv. 2021 12:06:35 +0100, a ecrit:
> Package: bsdmainutils
> Version: 12.1.7
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> In 257885db82a3 ("Split calendar into its own package") the calendar
> package was split out from the bsdmainutils package into its own package
> to save some room since the bsdmainutils is priority important, the
> former suggesting the latter. But a898abc6e8e5 ("Make bsdmainutils a
> transitional package.") later turned the suggestion into a dependency,
> so that calender does get installed.
>
> The problem is that calendar depends on cpp, and thus in the end the
> base install of Debian bullseye installs cpp, which uses 30MB, just for
> a calendar that was supposed not to be installed by default, I don't
> think we want this :)
>
> Could you make bsdmainutils back to only suggesting calendar, like it
> used to?
>
> Samuel
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
> 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
> (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'),
> (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1,
> 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
> set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages calendar depends on:
> ii cpp 4:10.2.1-1
> ii libbsd0 0.10.0-1
> ii libc6 2.31-9
>
> calendar recommends no packages.
>
> calendar suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
