severity 301138 serious
thanks

Actually, reviewing this bug severity and policy I believe the current 
priority for the packages stated in the bug report is plain wrong as 
current policy says:

"   standard
          These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
          character-mode system. This is what will be installed by
          default if the user doesn't select anything else. It doesn't
          include many large applications.
"

I do believe most of the following qualify as "large applications"?

Package                    Size
------------------------+--------

gdb                     2,766,822
gcc-3.3                 1,570,284
dpkg-dev                  166,800
libc6-dev               2,531,564
cpp-3.3                 1,391,346
manpages-dev            1,081,408
flex                      257,678
g++                         1,384 (Note: virtual package)
linux-kernel-headers    1,377,022
bin86                      82,090
cpp                        29,446
gcc                         4,896 (Note: virtual package)
g++-3.3                 1,778,880
bison                     702,830
make                      366,138
libstdc++5-3.3-dev        774,982

Some of those are not applications, but data that does not make sense to
install _unless_ you want the applications themselves (i.e. gcc and
libc6-dev )

Regards

Javier

PS: And if dpkg-deve is not also removed from 'standard' since it 
"Recommends" a c-compiler default installation will also pull in all that 
unnecessary stuff.


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