On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:49:41PM +0100, Lionel Debroux wrote: > > Anyway, the only util in apt-utils making use of libdb is > > apt-ftparchive which a) isn't used much in Debian – but by some > > derivatives¹ and b) can operate without the backing of a db, but you > > don't want to run a large archive without it. > > Could that program conceivably be split to another package ? Not really. apt-utils includes three tools: apt-extracttemplates, apt-ftparchive and apt-sortpkgs. The later two should be together and the first one shouldn't even exist… it exists only temporary as a stopgap as long as there is no dpkg tool (which would be the more natural place for extracting files from a deb file)[0] for this task. In other words: We realized only later that its existence is permantent, like with all good temporary solutions. Splitting packages now means that the split will reach effect at most in bullseye… (buster needs at least a recommends for upgraders, likely depends as there are tools like local-apt-repository depending on apt-utils to get apt-ftparchive) that might be a bit too far off for your case, especially as we haven't really gained anything by it. We just (literally) moved the problem. (The other aspects I will hopefully answer with another mail in the gsoc/outreach subthread) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap
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