Bug#1099706: dbus: needlessly depends on base-files or usr-is-merged

2025-03-11 Thread cacin
Package: dbus Version: 1.16.2-1 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, dbus currently declares a dependency on base-files or usr-is-merged packages. These dependencies were previously added as an attempt to ensure the system is /usr-merged before installing dbus. dbus is the only packa

Bug#1099706: dbus: needlessly depends on base-files or usr-is-merged

2025-03-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Am 07.03.25 um 10:58 schrieb Simon McVittie: If the alternative dependency on usr-is-merged is a practical problem for whatever reason, now that the required version of base-files has been around for a while we could remove that, leaving only base-files. My experience is, that "apt autoremo

Bug#1099706: dbus: needlessly depends on base-files or usr-is-merged

2025-03-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 at 22:58:57 +, ca...@allfreemail.net wrote: > Severity: important What major effect do you believe this dependency has on the usability of the dbus package, given that base-files is already Essential? The intention of this dependency is to make sure that during upgrades fr

Bug#1099706: dbus: needlessly depends on base-files or usr-is-merged

2025-03-07 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 10:58:57PM +, ca...@allfreemail.net wrote: > dbus currently declares a dependency on base-files or usr-is-merged > packages. These dependencies were previously added as an attempt to > ensure the system is /usr-merged before installing dbus. This is absolutely NOT needl