Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > Expanded dependency tree:
> libc6 is already quasi-Essential, via e.g. coreutils > libdbus-1-3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17) > libgcrypt11 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15) > libgcrypt11 Depends: libgpg-error0 (>= 1.10), already satisfied in stable > libgpg-error0 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) > liblzma5 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), already satisfied in stable > libselinux1 is already quasi-Essential, via coreutils > libsystemd-daemon0 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), already satisfied in stable liblzma5 is already quasi-Essential since dpkg depends on it. Libraries are generally fairly easy to make essential, if I recall correctly, so I don't think the burden here is very high. It makes sense to me to go ahead and do this. (Simon knows this, but for others who may be wondering, note that libraries themselves are not tagged essential in the package metadata because that just makes transitions harder. So this would promote all of these to quasi-essential, but not tag them with Essential: yes.) The other common objection is package size, so, for the record: libdbus-1-3 410KB libgcrypt11 646KB libgpg-error0 413KB libsystemd-daemon0 39KB so this would add about 1.5MB to essential. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oaw0w5sw....@windlord.stanford.edu
