Bug#497065: Please build two binaries, one with inflated depends and one without

2008-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Peter Samuelson | What a mess. I don't think any of that is appropriate for lenny at | this time. fwiw, I don't think it's worth the effort of saving a little bit of disk space post-lenny afterwards. There shouldn't be any security implications as the backends should be loaded on demand

Bug#497065: Please build two binaries, one with inflated depends and one without

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: apr-util Hi, I'm aware of new apr-util in experimental that can load db backends dynamically, however, this is not how lenny should be treated. It's a major pita to have mysql *and* psql *and* sqlite libraries on a webservers depends by *default*. Therefore, please build two binary

Bug#497065: Please build two binaries, one with inflated depends and one without

2008-08-29 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Friday 29 August 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote: Therefore, please build two binary packages out of apr-util, one which is build against the db backends, and one without (and apache depends against it them conditionally). Otherwise, this is a serious regression from the admin point of view for

Bug#497065: Please build two binaries, one with inflated depends and one without

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
Stefan Fritsch wrote: On i386, the difference is 4MB of disk space. I don't think that this justifies the work to change the packaging. the point is not the disk space, but the additional truckload of code that gets installed on webservers. And I doubt the release team would accept it,

Bug#497065: Please build two binaries, one with inflated depends and one without

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Baumann] And I doubt the release team would accept it, anyway. Lenny is frozen. i don't think the release team is that unreasonable to now allow a feeze exception for it. The library freeze was about 2 months ago. I don't think the release managers would want to let a library