Package: cdebootstrap Version: 0.5.10 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
cdebootstrap installs a bunch of packages, most but not all essential. APT relatively recently (with "apt-get markauto before 0.8.0, and "apt-mark" before 0.8.15 - i.e. supported even in oldstable) adopted the aptitude feature of tracking which packages are "auto-installed", i.e. not explicitly requested but pulled in only as a dependency of other explicitly needed packages.. Packages part of bootstrapping is strictly speaking neither explicitly installed nor pulled in by explicitly installed packages - because they all predate the ability to explicitly install packages at all. Looking at the use cases for the "auto-installed" mark, I believe it makes best sense anyway to mark most possible of them as such rather than not. (arguably bootstrapping should only ever involve essential packages and therefore simply mark all as auto-installed, but that's another issue) These should always be safe initially marking as auto-installed: * Essential: yes * Priority: Required * Pre-dependencies and Dependencies of above * Pre-dependencies and Dependencies of other (e.g. apt and important) These are safe marking as auto-installed only with default APT settings: * Recommendations of above I suggest to make cdebootstrap always mark the first set above, and to optionally mark the second set too. - Jonas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJTNvexXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ3NjQ4ODQwMTIyRTJDNTBFQzUxRDQwRTI0 RUMxQjcyMjM3NEY5QkQ2AAoJEE7BtyI3T5vWpX8H/jVp2wV2bFZVKEjf3C7HT10O 0EbZYh1TrS6CqVgOn2Mk2xaSYApl3N8vMXmclnx+P4spfCrYrSMSFeyb9glO9kDW u6y85K+Pzj/Uj1YpIby8DV/z2GhqFjrkjewAjMGSa8h8YsjQ5fC7cCX2wqoFDcM0 ouPl8EtyDlXi7LBFtNkk9sqdaerxGJgK+t7x3YcCEPlov5/WHACEfZjiNUJoiySV UmL7XEQwuKWsBV/XMoljZ0Ju7ZfO707O2orFb4u+KIlbofPMj8hQDbzPeVTVbZ7O hWfHH6gR0zhU0Ljolcm5cL4q3eAX089SG/cHkRaDMdn2+GeiOz9p1T077LSfmmQ= =YEXL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
