Package: gzip
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer(s),
gzip depends on dpkg >= 1.15.4, which was uploaded in September 2009
and was part of Debian 4.0 Etch, released in 2010. dpkg is essential,
and the required version has been satisfied for a long time as pre-Etch
releases are all since long been EOL, so it can be safely dropped.
Dropping the explicit and unnecessary dependency eases building a
package-based minimal, read-only initrd with the maintainer scripts
being ran at image build time, as we can install packages and then
remove apt/dpkg using --root from outside without removing gzip, which
is needed at runtime.
Trivial patch attached. Thanks!
From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 14:00:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0
dpkg 1.15.4 was uploaded in September 2009 and was part of
Debian 4.0 Etch, released in 2010. dpkg is essential, and the
required version has been satisfied for a long time as pre-Etch
releases are all since long been EOL, so it can be safely dropped.
This eases building a package-based minimal, read-only initrd with
the maintainer scripts being ran at image build time, as we can
install packages and then remove apt/dpkg using --root from
outside without removing gzip, which is needed at runtime.
---
debian/control | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e6c4f18..003daf0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Package: gzip
Architecture: any
Essential: yes
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Suggests: less
Conflicts: zutils (<< 1.13-2~)
Description: GNU compression utilities
