Hi, On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 06:19:48 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > As I'd like to change a Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up here > for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes” > nature. > > > As mentioned in [0] some time ago, I'd like to switch the Pre-Depends > from the current xz-utils commands to use the liblzma shared library, > (with a patch provided by Jonathan Nieder). This will reduce the > pseudo-essential package set and installed size slightly, and it > will also allow for speed up improvements in the future. > > [0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00511.html> > > There might be packages now implicitly depending on xz-utils given > that it's being pulled by dpkg, but those are buggy and should be > fixed regardless. > > If there's no strong reasons not to, I'd like to include this for > 1.16.1, as part of the dpkg buffer api rework needed for multiarch, > the conffiledb and automatic checksum generation.
I'll be including this in the upcoming dpkg 1.16.4 release. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510162009.ga25...@gaara.hadrons.org