On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 10:05:24PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 11:23:24AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2014-08-09 04:27 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > Potentially stupid question --- why are the gcc-4.[789]-base packages
> > > have the priority required? And what are they used for?
> > Providing the mandatory files under /usr/share/doc, all packages built
> > from the gcc-4.[789] source ship a symlink under /usr/share/doc.
> Sure, but this could be handled using the standard package
> dependencies, could it not? Why do these packages need to have
> "priority: required"?
> This forces debootstrap to drag them in, regardless whether or not
> they are needed.
gcc-4.9-base is Priority: required in testing and unstable because libgcc1
depends on it and is also Priority: required.
gcc-4.{7,8}-base are Priority: required in testing and unstable because
libgcc1 /used to/ depend on them. They should be dropped to Priority: extra
now, which probably involves filing a bug against the ftp.debian.org
pseudopackage.
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