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Bug#334245: marked as done (debootstrap: Please kick wget / remove wget depency)

Your message dated Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:13:01 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#334245: debootstrap: Please kick wget / remove wget depency
has caused the Debian Bug report #334245,
regarding debootstrap: Please kick wget / remove wget depency
to be marked as done.

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Package: debootstrap
Version: 0.2.45-0.2
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

please, please don't use wget anymore.
1st. It's insecure.
2nd. It actually has to be avaiable. As I understand debootstrap it
should be an really stand-alone option to install Debian Linux from
another Unix / Linux platform. Requiering wget means:
Have wget installed - well, often it isn't installed already. That means
you have to built it, by that you usually need a capable compiler.
So, what do you need wget for? Downloading, just downloading. These can
be accoomplished by curl, too.
So why don't you just link it statically against curl and - that's it.
Furthermore
For what do you need libc6 >= 2.3.2.ds1-4? Imho it's rather strange if 
other unices are used to install Debian. Please consider building 
debootstrap staticially, without any depencies.

Keep smiling
yanosz



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  binutils                    2.15-6       The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  wget                        1.9.1-12     retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information

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Jan Lühr <jan@kabelshop-online.com> (2005-10-16):
> please, please don't use wget anymore.
> 1st. It's insecure.
> 2nd. It actually has to be avaiable. As I understand debootstrap it
> should be an really stand-alone option to install Debian Linux from
> another Unix / Linux platform. Requiering wget means:
> Have wget installed - well, often it isn't installed already. That means
> you have to built it, by that you usually need a capable compiler.
> So, what do you need wget for? Downloading, just downloading. These can
> be accoomplished by curl, too.
> So why don't you just link it statically against curl and - that's it.
> Furthermore
> For what do you need libc6 >= 2.3.2.ds1-4? Imho it's rather strange if 
> other unices are used to install Debian. Please consider building 
> debootstrap staticially, without any depencies.

I'm not sure I understand all the arguments… but I can't see a problem
with the current state of affairs on the debootstrap side, so closing.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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