Re: future of aufs in Debian.
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 02:18:48PM +0100, peter green wrote:
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> Adrian filed a rc bug in November 2019 which received no maintainer response, however the package was not autoremoved from testing due to aufs and aufs-tools being considered a "key packages" due to high popcon. This popcon actually seems to be growing in both absolute and percentage terms. I presume the high popcon is due to some deriviative (hence debian-derivatives and debian-live in cc) using aufs in their live image builds (as far as I can tell debian's own live images seem to use overlayfs instead nowadays).
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It doesn't have to be a derivative, one webhoster who installs popcon by
default is enough.
phpmyadmin in stretch was a similar case, it went up to 10% popcon
despite nothing in Debian installing it by default and no reverse
dependencies (only a Suggests from a package with single-digit popcon).
When the release team went through RC bugs key packages closer to the
freeze phpmyadmin was removed from testing (and is not in buster).
cu
Adrian
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