Package: dracut-core Version: 051-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
dracut may be used in minimal systems. If that is the case, dracut-core drags in perl via pkg-config. However, it seems pkg-config is an optional part of dracut (and is indeed not shipped as a dependency for the RPM package if I read the upstream spec file correctly) and there is fall-back support if pkg-config is not installed. So it would be nice to demote pkg-config to Recommends in order to support minimal systems that don't ship perl by default. Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.10 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dracut-core depends on: ii cpio 2.12+dfsg-9 ii e2fsprogs 1.44.5-1+deb10u3 ii kmod 26-1 ii kpartx 0.7.9-3+deb10u1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libkmod2 26-1 ii pkg-config 0.29-6 ii udev 241-7~deb10u8 ii util-linux 2.33.1-0.1 Versions of packages dracut-core recommends: ii binutils 2.31.1-16 ii console-setup 1.193~deb10u1 ii cryptsetup 2:2.1.0-5+deb10u2 pn dmraid <none> ii dmsetup 2:1.02.155-3 ii lvm2 2.03.02-3 pn mdadm <none> ii systemd 241-7~deb10u8 dracut-core suggests no packages.