On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
> removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects
> have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually
> needs Essential
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:10:03 +0100
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote:
>
> > The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
> > e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself
> > is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS.
> Sinc
On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote:
> The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
> e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself
> is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS.
Since Luk is on vacation, does anybody else have any ideas about how to
do this?
--
ci
On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote:
> The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
> e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency.
So, how can this be done?
--
ciao,
Marco
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
On Feb 07, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
> > drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
> Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
> e2fsprogs?
initscripts in squeeze already only rec
On Sunday 07 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
> e2fsprogs?
Just see it's already been lowered to recommends (I had an older version of
initscripts installed).
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
> drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
e2fsprogs?
Also, what new priority should it get?
Debian Installer
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
> drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag its
Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?
e2fsprogs is not needed when the system uses other file systems or does
not have its own (e.g. openvz and lxc containers) and removing it would
save a few MB.
9 matches
Mail list logo
