Hi, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> (2015-11-11): > Package: debootstrap > Version: 1.0.74 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear debootstrap maintainers, > > thanks for your work in this tool, it's just awesome :-) > > Yesterday I noticed that debootstrap is installing nfacct and related libs > by default. > I simply ignore how do deboostrap chooses which packages to install. > > nfacct is a software by the Netfilter project to perform network accouting > by means of iptables. > It has a very specific pourpose, and I think it's not used unless you are > running an accounting firewall or other network application to perform > accounting. Which I bet is very rare. > I guess that 100% of users of nfacct are fine if they have to manually install > it with aptitude or other method after running debootstrap. > > I was told on a debian channel (IRC) that there is no reason to not install > it, it's a very small package after all. > But again, the nfacct software has very specific pourpose and little usage for > most of people both in the desktop land and the server land. > > I wonder if nfacct being installed by debootstrap is the reason behind the > abnormal popcon values [0]. > > thanks, best regards. > > [0] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nfacct #758229 was apparently about fixing the package priority, which is exactly what triggers debootstrap's installing it. A priority change has to happen at the ftpmaster level in addition to the package level (through the overrides mechanism). I'm therefore adding ftpmaster@ to the loop (along with the NMUer and the maintainer). Mraw, KiBi.
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