Re: Success in using cdebconf alone to bootstrap VMs

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Gioele Barabucci  wrote (Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:19:53 +0200):
> 
> Dear debconf and cdebconf maintainers,
> 
> you probably have seen the bugs reports [1] and the MRs [2,3] that I 
> recently opened related to the creation and the use of `debconf-common`.
> 
> With these changes [4,5,6] applied (and a few unrelated changes) I have 
> been able to mmdebootstrap a number of VMs in which classic debconf is 
> not used at all, neither at installation time nor afterward.
> 
> I'm confident that a debconf-free unstable for base systems could be 
> achieved before the freeze with little effort.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1018261
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/11
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/17
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/debconf/-/commits/debconf-common-pkg
> [5] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/depend-debconf-common
> [6] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/independence

Any objections against this approach?

Holger



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Bug#1019752: libpcre3-udeb: Can this be dropped?

[Bastian Germann]

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:05:53 +0200 Bastian Germann  wrote:

grep 3.8-1 has switched to pcre2. If I am not mistaken, grep is the last 
reverse dependency of libpcre3-udeb.
When the new grep version has migrated to bookworm, please ask the installer 
team if it is okay to drop libpcre3-udeb.


grep's libpcre3-udeb is now gone from bookworm.
Is there a chance of eliminating libpcre3-udeb?

Re: Bug#1019752: libpcre3-udeb: Can this be dropped?

[Cyril Brulebois]

Bastian Germann  (2022-11-03):
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:05:53 +0200 Bastian Germann  wrote:
> > grep 3.8-1 has switched to pcre2. If I am not mistaken, grep is the
> > last reverse dependency of libpcre3-udeb.  When the new grep version
> > has migrated to bookworm, please ask the installer team if it is
> > okay to drop libpcre3-udeb.
> 
> grep's libpcre3-udeb is now gone from bookworm.
> Is there a chance of eliminating libpcre3-udeb?

As far as I can see, no reverse dependencies in unstable, should be fine
to drop. You might want to wait a few days, someone else might spot
something I might have missed.


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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