Re: e2fsprogs as Essential: yes?: Maybe we should be separating l10n files first?

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:38:55AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 
> Lately architectures tend to use automatic bootstrapping at least for
> some of the initial dependencies.  Adding support for build profiles
> (would be something like pkg.e2fsprogs.nofuse in this case) can help to
> build just by using env variables when invoking dpkg-buildpackage or
> other build tools.
> 
> Would you accept patches to achieve this in e2fsprogs?  It would
> probably be quite clean, not complicating/obfuscating the packaging
> files too much, usually only 2~10 lines (but I didn't look specifically
> into this package yet).

With some help from Simon McVittie, you should be able to use the
build profile pkg.e2fsprogs.no-fuse2fs in the just-uploaded 1.43.8-2
version of e2fsprogs.  It seems to work for me; please let me know if
does what you need.

Cheers,

					- Ted