Package: base
On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote:
Frans Pop a écrit :
The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base
system and what is not.
Then who is? Where should I send a bug report?
What is your rationale for including it?
lspci is hardly an essential tool (although it _is_ highly useful of
course, but so are a couple of 100 other tools that are not
included)...
Correct place to file a bug report would be the pseudo package
"base", but
I strongly suggest you do not file a bug for this.
This has been discussed before.
Since the install-report template requests the output of lspci, I
would think you -- of all folks -- would want it as part of the base
system.
As things stand, it gets dragged in most of the time because the
"Desktop" task needs it. But if I chose to do a minimal install
without including the Desktop task (say for example because I just
want to test a new part of the debian installer and I don't want to
wait for the whole Desktop task to get installed) well, lspci isn't
there.
Another use case for including pci-utils (the parent package of
lspci) in the base-system is for a server install, where the Desktop
task is not likely to be wanted, but the utilities in pci-utils are
likely to be needed.
But, as you point out, "The d-i team is not responsible for what is
part of the base system and what is not." So I'll just submit a bug
report to "base" and let those who *are* responsible sort it out.
