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Bug#434548: marked as done (dependency on dpkg-dev bloats small systems)

Your message dated Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:14:41 +0200
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and subject line Bug#434548: dependency on dpkg-dev bloats small systems
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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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Hi,

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:32:33 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.

This is not the case anymore starting with xorg 1:7.3+8, which is an
arch:any package now. Thus closing this report.

> 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.

We should try to get rid of type-handling, and not to make it easier to
use it.

regards,
guillem

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