Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#679671: ia32-libs-i386: depends on removed package libdb4.8

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:

> [Dropped pkg-db-devel from Cc because it apparently doesn't accept posts
> from non-subscribers]
>
> On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 11:56 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> Looking at the package currently in unstable, I do have to ask what
>> happened to:
>> 
>>  ia32-libs-20120616/debian/copyright    |13164 ----------
>
> Answering my own question, it's presumably a side-effect of no longer
> embedding loads of other packages, so not needing to ship their
> copyright information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam

Indeed. It's just 2 empty transitional packages now that pull in
everything that used to be in ia32-libs through dependencies.
So no embedding of loads of other packages and therefore no need to
repeat the copyright infos. You will notice it got ~400MB smaller too
(including binaries).

MfG
        Goswin