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Bug#893713: debootstrap-udeb: containts too many scripts files (most of them are symlink but...)



Hi Raphaël,

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (2018-08-21):
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> >  It's not a problem, but we can improve it, IMO (so severity is low).
> 
> So you tried to fix a non-problem... and while doing so you introduced
> a real problem.
> 
> While cleaning up the list of scripts to keep, you decided to drop the
> scripts for all derivatives making it impossible to use the udeb built
> for Debian on any derivative (Kali bug report here:
> https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=4921)
> 
> So you saved a few kilobytes and made the life harder for others.
> IMO it was the wrong decision.
> 
> The other bug that you fixed at the same time asked to add more scripts,
> it did not ask to remove any.
> 
> If you really want to do anything at this level, you should just have
> a list of obsolete release and automatically drop the corresponding
> scripts. But IMO this is not worth the effort. We should just keep all
> scripts.

Right. Feel free to fix/revert this at your earliest convenience.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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