Control: retitle -1 override: libncurses5:libs/optional Andreas Henriksson writes: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 06:05:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > [...] >> Please downgrade the priority so that libncurses5 does not get installed >> in minimal chroots anymore and can be autoremoved in existing chroots by >> apt. > > Subject says "override: libncurses5:libs/important" but please > consider downgrading it to even lower than important! > > The important priority will pull it into a regular debootstrap. > It's a library, why now have dependencies just pull it in if needed?! > > (Yes, sure there might be some important package depending on it > and policy says yada, yada... but sooner or later policy > will get fixed -> #758234 )
I agree that we should try to downgrade libraries to Priority: optional if possible. I would still like an ACK from the d-i team (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed). Ansgar
