Control: tag -1 confirmed On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 03:00:27PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:41:02PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 21:50:27 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > Package: release.debian.org > > > Severity: normal > > > Tags: stretch > > > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > > > Usertags: pu > > > > > > * Replace dependencies on "net-tools | ethtool" and "net-tools | > > > iproute2" in wicd-daemon with a hard dependency on net-tools and > > > suggesting ethtool and iproute2 in python-wicd. Thanks to Neels > > > Hofmeyr for the bug report. (Closes: #881225) > > > > The net-tools dependency in python-wicd I'd probably be OK with, the > > change for wicd-daemon could easily have side effects so I'd rather we > > didn't. > > What kind of side effects do you have in mind? > > The change you approved creates a dependency chain > wicd-daemon -> python-wicd (= 1.7.4+tb2-5~deb9u1) -> net-tools > > The dependencies for wicd-daemon whose removal you question were: > wicd-daemon -> net-tools | ethtool > wicd-daemon -> net-tools | iproute2 > > I can make an update to the pu request with the wicd-daemon dependencies > restored, but I'm wondering under what circumstances this would make any > difference at all. > I think I didn't realize wicd-daemon depended on python-wicd. So I'm fine with the changed you proposed initially.
Cheers, Julien
