Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-09 Thread vagrant
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:45:40PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:08:12AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > it also has the side-effect of bloating pbuilder environments, which > > kind of defeats the purpose of pbuilder, as it will be harder to track > > down missing build

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Adam D. Barratt schrieb: gnuplot is required for plotchangelog (it's rather pointless without it). Allright. Regarding citadel, I believe it's pulled in by mailx or similar. Will investigate further tomorrow... -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanl

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Fabian Greffrath wrote: Adam D. Barratt schrieb: [...] mutt is recommended for nmudiff, so that the generated mail can be edited before being sent; I've moved it back to Suggests as many people will already have mutt installed and the script will still function without it. This is a good idea

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Adam D. Barratt schrieb: Are the citadel-* packages definitely being pulled in by devscripts? I can't immediately see any reverse dependencies on them outside of other citadel-* packages. No, it's pulled in by another package dependending (or recommending) mail-transport-agent, since it will

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Fabian Greffrath wrote: Adam D. Barratt schrieb: We are considering whether other packages should be moved to Suggests instead, but need to consider whether a particular package is needed for a "significant" piece of functionality of one or more scripts. Thanks! However, some citadel-* package

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Adam D. Barratt schrieb: We are considering whether other packages should be moved to Suggests instead, but need to consider whether a particular package is needed for a "significant" piece of functionality of one or more scripts. Thanks! However, some citadel-* packages are pulled in as well

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Fabian Greffrath wrote: since you have promoted all of devscript's Suggests to Recommends in the last upload, devscripts want to pull an insane amount of packages into my system (including oddities like openssh-server and emacs22). I cancelled 'aptitude upgrade' after it calculated the depen

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 14:56:31 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Please, I'd like to keep my productive system as small as possible - devscripts is meant for developers and development systems and not for productive systems, where you shouldn't run unstable. Greetings Martin -- Martin Z

Bug#474727: devscripts pulls in an insane amount of packages

2008-04-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
package: devscripts version: 2.10.23 severity: important Hi, since you have promoted all of devscript's Suggests to Recommends in the last upload, devscripts want to pull an insane amount of packages into my system (including oddities like openssh-server and emacs22). I cancelled 'aptitude up