On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 at 20:39:16 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> AIUI ubuntu will need to keep this dependency until they release 20.04
> (their next LTS?)
Ubuntu 20.04 is indeed their next LTS. However, they already have delta
in src:util-linux, including:
* Drop dependency from util-linux to fdisk. The transition to split-out
fdisk was done before 18.04 so the transitional dependency is no longer
needed, and fdisk should not be pulled into the essential package set
since it's not needed in container environments. For bootable systems
which need fdisk, it will be pulled in directly.
so being nice to Ubuntu is not a barrier to Debian doing this (indeed
they would probably prefer it if we did).
smcv
