Hi! As I'd like to change a Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up here for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes” nature.
As mentioned in [0] some time ago, I'd like to switch the Pre-Depends from the current xz-utils commands to use the liblzma shared library, (with a patch provided by Jonathan Nieder). This will reduce the pseudo-essential package set and installed size slightly, and it will also allow for speed up improvements in the future. [0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00511.html> There might be packages now implicitly depending on xz-utils given that it's being pulled by dpkg, but those are buggy and should be fixed regardless. If there's no strong reasons not to, I'd like to include this for 1.16.1, as part of the dpkg buffer api rework needed for multiarch, the conffiledb and automatic checksum generation. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110516041948.ga21...@gaara.hadrons.org
