Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

Hello Ivan,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org> wrote:
>  OS> To you exclude a package you also need to exclude all one that
>  OS> depends on it otherwise it will be added back into the installation
>  OS> list by the dependency resolution code.
>
>        Is it really the whole problem?  What other package(s) I should
>        --exclude= as well considering the case above?

It is added when debootstrap adds the required packages.

I've prepared a patch to allow it to be removed on the required list
however it is added back in dependency resolution code. I didn't play
with it to check the package that depends on that and will leave it to
you.

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diff --git a/packages/debootstrap/debootstrap b/packages/debootstrap/debootstrap
index ac821b8..086f5ea 100755
--- a/packages/debootstrap/debootstrap
+++ b/packages/debootstrap/debootstrap
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ if am_doing_phase finddebs; then
 	work_out_debs
 
 	base=$(without "$base $additional" "$exclude")
+	required=$(without "$required" "$exclude")
 
 	if [ "$RESOLVE_DEPS" = true ]; then
 		requiredX=$(echo $(echo $required | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq))