Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

Hi, Josh Triplett wrote: > Over the years, "Essential" has made it difficult to reduce installation > size, to reduce chroot/container size, or to coordinate various > transitions. Removing something from the Essential set requires tracking > down every package using it, adding a dependency,

Bug#945978: src:requests: FTBFS against python-urllib3 1.25 and newer

Source: requests Version: 2.21.0-1 Tags: upstream debian/control in the requests package contains Build-Depends: python-chardet (>= 3.0.2), python-chardet (<< 3.1.0), python-urllib3 (>= 1.21.1), python-urllib3 (<< 1.25), python3-chardet (>= 3.0.2), python3-chardet (<< 3.1.0),

Bug#914488: git breaks xandikos autopkgtest

Package: xandikos Version: 0.0.11-1 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian...@lists.debian.org, g...@packages.debian.org User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: breaks needs-update The xandikos autopkgtest is either flaky or is experiencing a regression with the Git update 2.19.1 -> 2.19.2. The litmus test

Bug#480396: build option to put hyphenated commands in /usr/lib

Source: git-core Version: 1.5.5.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch From: Jonathan Nieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] prepare to move git-commands to /usr/lib Moving the git-command binaries into /usr/lib/git-core would result in a less cluttered /usr/bin and reveal programs that use the