Re: Bug#982283: override: bsdmainutils:oldlibs/optional

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> [210211 00:56]:
> As I mentioned previously in the bug, bsdutils (required) recommends
> bsdextrautils, so for that part things don't change.
> 
> For calendar and cal/ncal, the question indeed holds. For bsdmainutils
> maintainers: I guess the goal of splitting them out of bsdmainutils was
> precisely to not install them by default?

There were two goals:

1) for bsdmainutils delegate most things to util-linux (for various
reasons). This was done by moving the utilities to bsdextrautils
(from util-linux).

2) util-linux has the goal of making users "not pay" for tools they
do not need. That was achieved by putting the tools into
bsdextrautils and not into, say, bsdutils. The idea was that the
tools would still be there "on a normal install" (however that is
defined, ...), but not on minimal installs.

Maybe bsdextrautils should be prio standard then?
(I don't know exactly how d-i decides what to install for
"standard system".)

Thanks,
Chris