Package: type-handling Version: 0.2.21 Severity: wishlist If you want to install X on a small system, you'll end up with type-handling installed because xorg depends on sparc-utils | not+sparc. That's fine, except type-handling in turn depends on dpkg-dev, which is half a megabyte installed. A significant amount of space if your hard drive is in the 500 mb range. Since the type-handling program, which is why dpkg-dev is in the depends, is only used in development, could you please consider moving it to a different package, maybe type-handling-dev? Then type-handling could be used as a pure dependency handling package, without bloating small systems. (FWIW, I was able to work around the immediate problem and regain the space by removing xorg, since it's just a metapackage itself.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages type-handling depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5 package building tools for Debian type-handling recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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