Hi, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> (2017-02-14): > Control: retitle -1 override: libncurses5:libs/optional > > Andreas Henriksson writes: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 06:05:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > [...] > >> Please downgrade the priority so that libncurses5 does not get installed > >> in minimal chroots anymore and can be autoremoved in existing chroots by > >> apt. > > > > Subject says "override: libncurses5:libs/important" but please > > consider downgrading it to even lower than important! > > > > The important priority will pull it into a regular debootstrap. > > It's a library, why now have dependencies just pull it in if needed?! > > > > (Yes, sure there might be some important package depending on it > > and policy says yada, yada... but sooner or later policy > > will get fixed -> #758234 ) > > I agree that we should try to downgrade libraries to Priority: > optional if possible. > > I would still like an ACK from the d-i team (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed). It's rather late in the release cycle to be cleaning up things like that… but since it's being pulled due to: [others] → udev (Priority:important → propcs (Priority:important) man-db (Priority:standard) → bsdmainutils openssh-client → libedit2 I think we should be able to do that nonetheless. Adding debian-cd@ to the loop to make sure this wouldn't break image building and stuff we need to put into various images. KiBi.
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