Package: xz-utils
Version: 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
Severity: minor
Justification: policy ยง2.5
Tags: patch
Hi,
xz-utils has "Priority: required" but no pseudo-essential package
depends on it:
$ grep-dctrl -sPackage -Fpriority required \
-a -FDepends,Pre-Depends 'xz-utils' \
</var/lib/cupt/lists/*_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-i386_Packages |
wc -l
0
The priority should be 'important' or lower as discussed at [1]
and [2]. This could help people building tiny systems to make
them smaller. Patch attached.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/452393
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/55821
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:44:04 -0500
Subject: debian/control: xz-utils is not pseudo-essential any more
Since dpkg 1.16.4~6 (libdpkg: Add liblzma compression support,
2012-06-07), the xz command is no longer needed in a minimal Debian
system.
Based on its list of reverse-dependencies, it is even safe to lower
the priority to optional. Let's make it "standard", since it is not
part of the traditional Unix toolset but is a useful component even in
reasonably small character-mode systems.
---
debian/changelog | 1 +
debian/control | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a69f889..56563e1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
xz-utils (5.1.1alpha+20120614-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+ * Lower priority of xz-utils to standard.
* xz-utils/README.Debian: Document differences from upstream.
-- Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:57:24 -0700
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 986f0c1..281931e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Description: XZ-format compression library
format, use the p7zip package instead.)
Package: xz-utils
+Priority: standard
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Multi-Arch: foreign
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