Le Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:22:04PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit : > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 06:25:53PM +0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > > What I'm suggesting here is that if every individual package that needs > > awk has a Depends on it (via a package that allows switching > > implementations), rather than relying on Essential, then it becomes > > possible to make incremental progress, and that incremental progress > > benefits people who are willing to carefully remove some of what Debian > > normally always has installed packages. > > Should we start declaring deps on all essential packages explicitly?
There are maintainers scripts that run without the dependencies installed (or even without the package being installed). They can only use Essential:yes packages. There is no place to write such dependency currently. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
