Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 4 authors, 2021-01-19

Re: [PATCH 2/6] debian: remove dependency on essential util-linux

From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-01-14 20:49:08

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 07:37:43PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
Essential packages must not be part of Depends.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Germann <redacted>
/me wonders what section of the debian packaging manuals say that, but
Lintian certain complains about the unversioned dependency and I guess
we should get ourselves off the bad list[1].  IOWs, good enough for me.
:)

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version.html

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quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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 debian/control | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 49ffd340..34dce4d5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Standards-Version: 4.0.0
 Homepage: https://xfs.wiki.kernel.org/
 
 Package: xfsprogs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python3:any, util-linux
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python3:any
 Provides: fsck-backend
 Suggests: xfsdump, acl, attr, quota
 Breaks: xfsdump (<< 3.0.0)
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2.30.0
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