Control: reassign -1 python3 Control: severity -1 important Control: merge 718819 -1
Hi, Thanks for the report! On 10:38 Mon 19 Mar , jim_p wrote: > Package: dh-python > Version: 3.20180313 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Today's upgrade to dh-python from 3.20180313 to 3.20180318 wants to install > dpkg-dev and, in turn, dpkg-dev wants > to install all its direct dependencies (patch, make, binutils etc), which is > a 30+MB loss of space for me. It was > not a dependency of the previous version which was released 5 days ago, so I > was wondering if it can be avoided. > Removing dh-python also removes stuff I really need, like icdiff, youtube-dl, > reportbug etc. dh-python is a packaging tool, so it's pretty acceptable for it to depend on dpkg-dev. The problem is that python3 depends on dh-python (and thus transitively on dpkg-dev). This causes dpkg-dev to be pulled in whenever a python3 program or library is installed, something which is not strictly necessary. There is a separate bug (#718819) filed already for this issue, so I'm merging these two bugs. Dear Python maintainers, would it be possible to drop the dh-python dependency from python3, as stated in #718819? This appears to be a good point in Buster's release cycle to do so. Regards, Apollon
