Bug#949572: debian-installer: Do not install Python2 by default.
Package: debian-installer
Followup-For: Bug #949572
I was thinking maybe it is being installed because of the
Priority: important or Priority: essential, but no I checked
python{,2}{,-minimal} and they are either Priority: standard
and Priority: optional.
So I a not exactly sure what decides to install it.
I checked the debootstrap sources and a profile for 'sid',
I do not see the python mentioned there explicitly.
I even done a test with `debootstrap sid ....` and it doesn't
install Python at all. There is no python in base or required
packages.
So the fact that debian-installer is installing Python2 must be
coming from somewhere else. Python3 makes sense as it is dependency
of reportbug, popcon and apt-listchanges for example.
Cheers,
Witold
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