Package: base On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote:On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote:Frans Pop a écrit :The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base system and what is not.Then who is? Where should I send a bug report?What is your rationale for including it? lspci is hardly an essential tool (although it _is_ highly useful ofcourse, but so are a couple of 100 other tools that are not included)...Correct place to file a bug report would be the pseudo package "base", butI strongly suggest you do not file a bug for this.
This has been discussed before.Since the install-report template requests the output of lspci, I would think you -- of all folks -- would want it as part of the base system.
As things stand, it gets dragged in most of the time because the "Desktop" task needs it. But if I chose to do a minimal install without including the Desktop task (say for example because I just want to test a new part of the debian installer and I don't want to wait for the whole Desktop task to get installed) well, lspci isn't there.
Another use case for including pci-utils (the parent package of lspci) in the base-system is for a server install, where the Desktop task is not likely to be wanted, but the utilities in pci-utils are likely to be needed.
But, as you point out, "The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base system and what is not." So I'll just submit a bug report to "base" and let those who *are* responsible sort it out.