Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.24 Followup-For: Bug #474727 i don't think this bug should really be closed for 2.10.24, although it somewhat improved the situation from the previous version.
i'm wondering if it wouldn't be worthwhile to break devscripts into several packages if it's really important to mark so many of these as recommends? especially recommends which pull in GUI or multimedia packages. looking at a few of the packages pulled in when upgrading devscripts: esound-clients esound-common libesd0 libaudiofile0 what scripts actually make use of audio in general or esound in particular? gnuplot gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 why is it pulling in both gnuplot-nox and gnuplot-x11? libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 what is pulling these in? i'll attempt to track down what exactly is pulling in what, but just wanted to mention those off the bat. this bug is making it harder to keep devscripts installed on a simple chroot environment that used for test builds of packages, where many of the devscripts utilities are very useful. i could manually remove the packages, and hopefully apt will remember that, i guess. it also has the side-effect of bloating pbuilder environments, which kind of defeats the purpose of pbuilder, as it will be harder to track down missing build-dependencies. i haven't verified if fresh pbuilder installs include devscripts or not. thanks! live well, vagrant -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
