Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 at 20:39:16 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > AIUI ubuntu will need to keep this dependency until they release 20.04 > (their next LTS?) Ubuntu 20.04 is indeed their next LTS. However, they already have delta in src:util-linux, including: * Drop dependency from util-linux t

Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-27 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Helmut, Thanks for your interest in completing this task. On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi, > > I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details > are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential, > packages do not ne

Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details > are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential, > packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes > non-essential, such

Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-25 Thread Ansgar
Thomas Goirand writes: > Do you already have a list of affected package? A list of affected packages was attached to the mail. Ansgar

Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/24/19 1:03 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi, > > I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details > are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential, > packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes > non-essential, such dependencies