Tim Wootton <t...@tee-jay.demon.co.uk> writes: > or just build without the dependency in the 1st place like it used to > be. After all it's not like it adds anything that's essential.
No, including the dependency is the right approach and is consistent with how Debian has always handled issues like this. We always enable all optional upstream behavior where possible unless the dependencies are particularly heavy, and in this case they aren't. An 82KB library is tiny, definitely not large enough to warrant worrying about splitting the bsdutils binary package or building binaries with multiple sets of functionality. We introduce new library dependencies or just increases in size of existing libraries on that scale routinely without anyone even noticing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87vbmjlqwd....@hope.eyrie.org
