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Bug#804770: marked as done (debootstrap: please don't install nfacct and related libs)

Your message dated Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:18:08 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#804770: debootstrap: please don't install nfacct and related libs
has caused the Debian Bug report #804770,
regarding debootstrap: please don't install nfacct and related libs
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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

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Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> (2015-11-11):
> On 11 November 2015 at 15:25, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Arturo, given the issue is fixed in unstable and testing already, are
> > you fine with letting jessie in its current state? It looks to me that
> > this is only a small annoyance, people can still remove this package if
> > they want to spare a few kBs. I'm also not sure this warrants an update
> > in stable (we tend to only fix serious or important bugs there).
> >
> 
> I'm fine, yeah. Thanks for your time :-)
> 
> Feel free to close the bug or whatever.

Great, doing so then.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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