Control: reassign 1068637 debian-installer Control: reassign 1068560 debian-installer Control: forcemerge 931283 1068637 1068560 Summary of bug(s) so far: lvm2 installed by d-i without its Recommends Question: Can we solve this once and for all or do we need/want a workaround and/or downgrade for lvm2 only to make user happy [only pun intended] Merging both into #931283 that seems to be about the same thing. On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 02:17:18AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Then, I don't know the internals. But according to Bastian Blank[*]: > "It is installed like everything else." (but see the details below). > > [*] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068560#22 He likely meant that you have installed it, "like everything else" because that is what users usually do and you weren't particular clear that you haven't – and what you used that did for you… lvm2 isn't "a core package", so there are certainly ways of installing Debian (even with d-i, which isn't the only way either) without lvm2. d-i seems to install packages without recommends: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/base-installer/-/blob/master/library.sh?ref_type=heads#L152 That is later dropped for "everything else", but I suppose lvm2 is installed before that – but I don't know much about d-i or lvm2. Anyway, it probably isn't a good idea to have d-i install all recommends while it sets up the machine – better things to do and all that –, but perhaps it can as one of the last actions (final_apt_preferences ?) run something like: | apt-get install --fix-policy (after the config is removed, or add --install-recommends). Likely involves demoting some 'Recommends' in the base set to 'Suggests' through, but they behave like that already if installed by d-i, so that is probably for the best for consistency alone. In any case, I will leave d-i folks have fun with this now, but feel free to ask apt-team if there is something we can help with. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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